He who wants to get rich wants to get rich quickly.

Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak

Honesty's praised, then left to freeze.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.