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

The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

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

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

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