All men have the capacity of knowing themselves and acting with moderation.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the city s walls.

There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.