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.

Thus, if there is anyone who is confident that he can advise me as to the best advantage of the state in this campaign which I am about to conduct, let him not refuse his services to the state, but come with me into Macedonia. I will furnish him with his sea-passage, with a horse, a tent, and even travel-funds. If anyone is reluctant to do this and prefers the leisure of the city to the hardships of campaigning, let him not steer the ship from on shore.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.