Justice, even if slow, is sure.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.

Say nothing but good of the dead.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws and the people the magistrates.

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