Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

The essences of the Gods never came into existence (for that which always is never comes into existence; and that exists for ever which possesses primary force and by nature suffers nothing): neither do they consist of bodies; for even in bodies the powers are incorporeal. Neither are they contained by space; for that is a property of bodies. Neither are they separate from the first cause nor from one another, just as thoughts are not separate from mind nor acts of knowledge from the soul.

Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.