When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

By 'life,' we mean a thing that can nourish itself and grow and decay.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.