Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

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

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

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

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.