Beauty vanishes; virtue is lasting.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.