Discover the opinion of your enemies, which is commonly the truest; for they will give you no quarter, and allow nothing to complaisance.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

All empire is no more than power in trust.

Even victors are by victories undone.

For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.

Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.

But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.