Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

Human beings are curious by nature.

A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.