Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.