Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.

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.

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.

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.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

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

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear