Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

Say nothing but good of the dead.

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.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.