They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.