Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

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

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer; bakers of large loaves will not buy grain before two o'clock. This will enable the people of the town to obtain their supply first. Bakers shall put a distinctive trademark on their loaves, and keep weights and scales in their shops, under penalty of having their licenses removed.

I do not sleep to let others sleep in the shade of my waking.

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

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