Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.
For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy when control lies with the rich and better-born, these being few.