We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.

There is nothing peranent except change.

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.

The only constant in life is change

It is better to conceal ignorance than to expose it.

All things flow, nothing abides.

Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.