An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.
Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.