Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.

An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.