Hope is a waking dream.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.

[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.