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.

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

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

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

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

Speak briefly and to the point.