To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?
We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell.
God is truth and light his shadow.
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.