It is better to take many injuries than to give one.
There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.
Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.
Look before, or you'll find yourself behind.