Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddied? You are the one who must grow up.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

Among the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished.