Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.