Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
No grief reaches the dead.
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.