Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

Poets tell many lies.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.