Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.
Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.
That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.
They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies.
There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.