It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.

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.

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

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.

Each man the architect of his own fate.

To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.