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.

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.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

Evil events from evil causes spring.