Persevere In Virtue And Diligence.

Woe To The Conquered.

Such Is The Nature Of Crowds: Either They Are Humble And Servile Or Arrogant And Dominating. They Are Incapable Of Making Moderate Use Of Freedom, Which Is The Middle Course, Or Of Keeping It.

Avarice And Luxury, Those Evils Which Have Been The Ruin Of Every Great State.

Toil And Pleasure, In Their Natures Opposite, Are Yet Linked Together In A Kind Of Necessary Connection.

Law Is A Thing Which Is Insensible, And Inexorable, More Beneficial And More Profitious To The Weak Than To The Strong; It Admits Of No Mitigation Nor Pardon, Once You Have Overstepped Its Limits.