Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.
A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.