Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Prosperity engenders sloth.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.

Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.

This was the Athenians' war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.