Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.