In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.