A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.