He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

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

All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

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.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.