Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

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.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.