To Do An Evil Action Is Base;

In Words Are Seen The State Of Mind And Character And Disposition Of The Speaker.

Wise Men Are Able To Make A Fitting Use Even Of Their Enmities.

Nor Is Drunkenness Censured For Anything So Much As Its Intemperate And Endless Talk.

They Are Wrong Who Think That Politics Is Like An Ocean Voyage Or A Military Campaign, Something To Be Done With Some Particular End In View, Something Which Leaves Off As Soon As That End Is Reached. It Is Not A Public Chore, To Be Got Over With. It Is A Way Of Life. It Is The Life Of A Domesticated Political And Social Creature Who Is Born With A Love For Public Life, With A Desire For Honor, With A Feeling For His Fellows; And It Lasts As Long As Need Be.

The First Evil Those Who Are Prone To Talk Suffer, Is That They Hear Nothing.