Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

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.

Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.