One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his hand from the shedding of tribal blood, but by the customary unjust accusations brings a citizen into court and assassinates him, blotting out a human life, and with unhallowed tongue and lips that have tasted kindred blood, banishes and slays and hints at the abolition of debts and the partition of lands.

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!