To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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.