The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

We have two useless gods who never leave our island, but like to dwell in it constantly, Poverty and Helplessness.

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.