Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

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.

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

For of those [cities] that were great in earlier times, most of them have now become small, while those which were great in my time were small formerly.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.