Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.