I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.
Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.