The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

By words the mind is winged.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.