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

To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

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.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Who will be my equal?

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

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