It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

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

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible

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.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.