The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.
The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.
In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless.
Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.