In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
Nothing ever is, everything is becoming.
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect.
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.