Man is his own worst enemy.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.

When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

We make allowance for necessity.