Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

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

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who endure for ever to attain everything in a short time: and also, there is need of human virtue. If punishment followed instantly upon sin, men would act justly from fear and have no virtue.

If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.