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.

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

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

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

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

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