It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

Half the world's troubles come from men not being trained to resent a fallacy as much as an insult.

Power is the test. Some, once they have it, are content to buy the show of liking, and punish those who withhold it; then you have a despot. But some keep a true eye for how they seem to others, and care about it, which holds them back from much mischief.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.