A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

I am never less alone than when alone.

I know that it is likely that as worship of the gods declines, faith between men and all human society will disappear, as well as that most excellent of all virtues, which is justice.

As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.

A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.