The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.