"Poor, wretched, and stupid peoples, nations determined on your own misfortune and blind to your own good! You let you…"

"Et de tant d'indignités que les bêtes elles-mêmes ne supporteraient pas si elles les sentaient, vous pourriez vous dé…"

"There is in our souls some native seed of reason, which, if nourished by good counsel and training, flowers into virt…"

"The good seed that nature plants in us is so slight and so slippery that it cannot withstand the least harm from wron…"

"Men are like handsome race horses who first bite the bit and later like it, and rearing under the saddle a while soon…"

"The dictator does not consider his power firmly established until he has reached the point where there is no man unde…"

"Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy, nor any fish sooner fixed on the hook by wormy bai…"

"Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shame…"

"The mob has always behaved in this way—eagerly open to bribes that cannot be honorably accepted, and dissolutely call…"

"Ils veulent servir pour amasser des biens: comme s'ils pouvaient rien gagner qui fût à eux, puisqu'ils ne peuvent mêm…"