Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.