How can a monarchy be a suitable thing, which allows a man to do as he pleases with none to hold him to account. And even if you were to take the best man on earth, and put him into a monarchy, you put outside him the thoughts that usually guide him.

We are less convinced by what we hear than by what we see.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.