"Let the speaker speak truly and the judge decide justly."

"As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves."

"It is only the dead who have seen the end of war."

"It is only just that anything that up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one."

"Most men in power become villains."

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"Rhetoric is the art of ruling the minds of men."

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."

"Observe that open loves are held to be more honorable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honorable."

"It is the task of the enlightened not only to ascend to learning and to see the good but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honors, whether they are worth having or not. And this they must do, even with the prospect of death."