I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.

Don't promise twice what you can do at once.

Flee sloth for the indolence of the soul is the decay of the body.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

Consider it the greatest of all virtues to restrain the tongue.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves. It will make you feel as if you had not eaten, and you can drink as much as you like.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

I will begin to speak, when I have that to say which had not better be unsaid.

Speak briefly and to the point.