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.

Say nothing but good of the dead.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Learn to obey before you command.

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

Speech is the mirror of action.

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.