For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.