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.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.

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

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.