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Never may a man prone to believe scandal be a despot or a popular leader! Under his guidance, democracy itself will be despotism.
I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof.
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!
Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.
You need not wonder at my knowing all human languages; for, to tell you the truth, I also understand all the secrets of human silence.
In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.
There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as
there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.
there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.
I asked questions when I was a stripling, and it is not my business to ask questions now, but to teach people what I have discovered.
I pray as follows: May justice reign, may the laws not be broken, may the wise men be poor, and the poor men rich, without sin.
Nero may have understood how to tune his cithern, but he disgraced his imperial office both by slackening and by tightening the strings.
It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked them what caused this anguish. They blamed their wealth.