Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
Each man the architect of his own fate.
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.