Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.
The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.
Do nothing twice over.
In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.
All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.
When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.