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

If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.

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

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

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

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.