Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.