The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

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.

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.

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

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.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.