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

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

If it is naturally in you to be a good orator, a notable orator you will be when you have acquired knowledge and practice.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature.

Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.

No one ever dies an atheist.