How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.