Keep cool and you will command everyone.
The safety of the state is the highest law.
Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.
If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be anathema [excommunicated]
Frugality is the mother of all virtues.
There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.