If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.
Learn to obey before you command.
Reprove your friend privately, commend him publicly.
Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.
To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.
Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.