Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and the unspeakable, the revealed and the unrevealed, that which is clear and that which is hidden: since, just as the Gods have made the goods of sense common to all, but those of intellect only to the wise, so the myths state the existence of Gods to all, but who and what they are only to those who can understand.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.