Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

What you think is the summit is only a step up