Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.