For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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

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

If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.