The mob is the mother of tyrants.
Nothing can be produced out of nothing.
To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.
It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.