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.

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

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

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

To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

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.

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.