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.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

The more laws, the less justice.

Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.