As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.
Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.
...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.