A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

The Cadiz tribe, not used to bearing our yoke.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt.

Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.