A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

Truth never perishes.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.