The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.

The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.