All have the gift of speech, but few are possessed of wisdom.
The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.
I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.
Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.
Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.
Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband's private mill.