I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him.

He who graduates the harshest school, succeeds.

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.