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.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

Judge not by the number, but by the weight.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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