Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude..

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel..

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

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a….