By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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.
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.