Before beginning, plan carefully.

There is nothing god cannot do.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

Our thoughts are free.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.