Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

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

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

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.

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.

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