If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.