Calamus Fortior Gladio.

Now In Regard To Trades And Other Means Of Livelihood, Which Ones Are To Be Considered Becoming To A Gentleman And Which Ones Are Vulgar, We Have Been Taught, In General, As Follows. First, Those Means Of Livelihood Are Rejected As Undesirable Which Incur People's Ill-will, As Those Of Tax-gatherers And Usurers. Unbecoming To A Gentleman, Too, And Vulgar Are The Means Of Livelihood Of All Hired Workmen Whom We Pay For Mere Manual Labour, Not For Artistic Skill; For In Their Case The Very Wage They Receive Is A Pledge Of Their Slavery.

The Function Of Wisdom Is To Discriminate Between Good And Evil.

If The Truth Were Self-evident, Eloquence Would Be Unnecessary.

In A Republic This Rule Ought To Be Observed: That The Majority Should Not Have The Predominant Power.

For My Own Part, I Had Rather Be Old Only A Short Time Than Be Old Before I Really Am So.