In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

After victory, you have more enemies.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?