Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

We must remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.

For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must.

Men do not rest content with parrying the attacks of a superior, but often strike the first blow to prevent the attack being made.

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.