Law is order, and good law is good order.

Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.