When the citizens of a society can see and hear their leaders, then that society should be seen as one.
The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
You should not honor men more than truth.
Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.