A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light
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.