The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Reason should direct, and appetite obey.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Man is his own worst enemy.
Before beginning, plan carefully.
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.