Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.