To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.

A community is like the ones who govern it.

All soils are not fertile.