Learn to cultivate your own garden.
An admiral should be put to death now and then to encourage the others.
We must cultivate our own garden.
So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.
The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.
There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.