Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
Whatever is unknown is magnified.
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter