Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.

Each man the architect of his own fate.

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

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.

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

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.