Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

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.

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

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.