Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

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.

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

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