Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.