Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
Under every stone lurks a politician.