The most beautiful motion is that which accomplishes the greatest results with the least amount of effort.

There is no necessity for the man who means to be an orator to understand what is really just but only what would appear so to the majority of those who will give judgment; and not what is really good or beautiful but whatever will appear so; because persuasion comes from that and not from the truth.

Those who are not schooled and practised in truth [who are not honest and upright men] can never manage aright the government, nor yet can those who spend their lives as closet philosophers; because the former have no high purpose to guide their actions, while the latter keep aloof from public life.

I shall assume that your silence gives consent.

He whom loves touches not walks in darkness.

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.