Again, if the world is destroyed, it must needs either be destroyed according to nature or against nature. Against nature is impossible, for that which is against nature is not stronger than nature. If according to nature, there must be another nature which changes the nature of the world: which does not appear.

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

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

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

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

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?

It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.