To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Nothing can produce so great a serenity of life as a mind free from guilt and kept untainted, not only from actions, but purposes that are wicked. By this means the soul will be not only unpolluted but also undisturbed. The fountain will run clear and unsullied.