» If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.
» The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
» In all things there is a law of cycles.
» To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
» The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
» The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
» Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
» Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
» It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged.
» All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.