It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

A man trusts his ears less than his eyes.

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