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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.

In all things let reason be your guide.

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

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Power proves the man".

Call no man happy until he is dead.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

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

count no man happy until he be dead.

Reprove thy friend privately: commend him publicly.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

What thou seest, speak of with caution.

Say nothing but good of the dead.

Angels are winged with God's power.

Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.

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

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

True blessedness consisteth in a good life and a happy death.

Satiety comes of riches and contumaciousness of satiety.

No fool can be silent at a feast.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured
by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

That city in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

I grow old, ever learning many things.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

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

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

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

Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.

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

He that will sell his fame will also sell the public interest.

If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Honors achieved far exceed those that are created.

Speech is the mirror of action.

Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.

Learn to obey before you command.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Know thyself.
[Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

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

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.