What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

A person's life persuades better than his word.

We must become just be doing just acts.