But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.

My men have become women, but the women men.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.