When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking.
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.