The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.
The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.
You will understand a great truth when you get to realize that what you do to others, you are doing to yourself.
Those who stay where they are will endure.
Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.