If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.
Custom is almost a second nature.
Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes.
Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.
The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.