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.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

No sober person dances.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

The science of love is the philosophy of the heart