Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution.

Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

We deliberate not about ends, but about means.

Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

Change in all things is sweet.

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.