Of Two Evils Choose The Least.

The Chief Element Of Happiness Is This: To Want To Be What You Are.

Prevention Is Better Than Cure.

The Jewish Usurers Are Fast-rooted Even In The Smallest Villages, And If They Lend Five Gulden They Require A Security Of Six Times As Much. They Charge Interest, Upon Interest, And Upon This Again Interest, So That The Poor Man Loses Everything That He Owns.

Picture The Prince, Such As Most Of Them Are Today: A Man Ignorant Of The Law, Well-nigh An Enemy To His People's Advantage, While Intent On His Personal Convenience, A Dedicated Voluptuary, A Hater Of Learning, Freedom And Truth, Without A Thought For The Interests Of His Country, And Measuring Everything In Terms Of His Own Profit And Desires.

Amongst The Learned The Lawyers Claim First Place, The Most Self-satisfied Class Of People, As They Roll Their Rock Of Sisyphus And String Together Six Hundred Laws In The Same Breath, No Matter Whether Relevant Or Not, Piling Up Opinion On Opinion And Gloss On Gloss To Make Their Profession Seem The Most Difficult Of All. Anything Which Causes Trouble Has Special Merit In Their Eyes.