A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.