I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.
Humble things become the humble.
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
It is sweet and right to die for the homeland, but it is sweeter to live for the homeland, and the sweetest to drink for it. Therefore, let us drink to the health of the homeland.
There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.