The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

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.

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.