It Is As Hard For The Good

It Is Of No Avail To Know What Is About To Happen; For It Is A Sad Thing To Be Grieved When Grief Can Do No Good.

No Power Is Strong Enough To Be Lasting, If It Labours Under The Weight Of Fear.

When You Are Aspiring To The Highest Place, It Is Honorable To Reach The Second Or Even The Third Rank.

The Men Who Administer Public Affairs Must First Of All See That Everyone Holds Onto What Is His, And That Private Men Are Never Deprived Of Their Goods By Public Men.

The More Peculiarly His Own A Man's Character Is, The Better It Fits Him.