Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.

When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.