What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
The mob is the mother of tyrants.
We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.