To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.

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?

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

Each man the architect of his own fate.

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

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.