Our Actions Determine Our Dispositions.

It Is The Repeated Performance Of Just And Temperate Actions That Produces Virtue.

He Who Is To Be A Good Ruler Must Have First Been Ruled.

Every Rascal Is Not A Thief, But Every Thief Is A Rascal.

Saying The Words That Come From Knowledge Is No Sign Of Having It.

The Laws Are, And Ought To Be, Relative To The Constitution, And Not The Constitution To The Laws. A Constitution Is The Organization Of Offices In A State, And Determines What Is To Be The Governing Body, And What Is The End Of Each Community. But Laws Are Not To Be Confounded With The Principles Of The Constitution; They Are The Rules According To Which The Magistrates Should Administer The State, And Proceed Against Offenders.