The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

From abundance springs satiety.

Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.

Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

Woe to the conquered.

Never is work without reward, or reward without work.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.