There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Let every man practise the trade which he best understands.

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.