All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

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

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

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.