Friends, though absent, are still present.
A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.
A wise man does nothing by constraint.
The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.