A friend to all is a friend to none.

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number.

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Prosperity makes friends and adversity tries them. A true friend is one soul in two bodies

In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.