All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.
The people should fight for the law as for their city wall.
Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own
Where there is no strife there is decay: 'The mixture which is not shaken decomposes.'