It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

The soul suffers when the body is diseased or traumatized, while the body suffers when the soul is ailing.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.