To write well, express yourself like the common people, but... - Aristotle

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies."

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. This is not a function of any other art."

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."

"The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think."