That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects.

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.