It is better to receive than to do injury.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

Every evil in the bud is easily crushed: as it grows older, it becomes stronger.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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.