Might was the measure of right.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

How blind men are to Heaven’s gifts!

Unutterable are the things we fear, but soon our fears will be exceeded.

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion’s ever impatient consort.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.

A crime which is the crime of many none avenge.

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.