A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.
Hereditary honors are a noble and a splendid treasure to descendants.
All men, well interrogated, answer well.
What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.
To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.
For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world.