In an honest man there is always something of a child.

Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

May I do to others as I would that they should do unto me.

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.