Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

Like readily consorts with like.

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.