The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure
The true nature of a thing is the highest it can become.
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.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble.