Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
Valor is the contempt of death and pain.