Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
But few prize honour more than money.
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.