Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.
Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.
Poets tell many lies.
If through your vices you afflicted are, Lay not the blame of your distress on God; You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath slavery's heavy rod.
Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.