How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!
Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.
As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.