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.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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.