 Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. |
| The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. |
| To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship. Topics: Friendship |
| In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. |
| Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits. |
| All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity. |
| Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself. |
| No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. |
| Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised. |
| As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. |
| Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. |
| The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. |
| In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. |
| It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave. |
| No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right. |
| Every man is the architect of his own fortune. |
| Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. |
| By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. |
| Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible. |
| Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. |
