When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which…

When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Prudence: 'Speak rarely, but then speak carefully. Speak with great calculation and discretion before your rivals and with great nobility of manner before frie…

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

The orators-and the despots-have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever …