Heap up great wealth in your house, if you wish, and live as a tyrant, but, if the enjoyment of these things be lacking, I would not buy the rest for the shadow of smoke as against happiness.
Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.
The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.
Time, which sees all things, has found you out.
I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.
It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.