Rule, After You Have First Learned To

Watch Well Each Separate Citizen, Lest Having In His Heart Of Hearts A Secret Spear, One Still May Come Saluting You With Cheerful Face, And Utter With A Double Tongue The Feigned Good Wishes Of His Wary Mind.

He Who Has Learned How To Obey Will Know How To Command.

That City In Which Those Who Are Not Wronged, No Less Than Those Who Are Wronged, Exert Themselves To Punish The Wrongdoers.

In The Ideal State Laws Are Few And Simple, Because They Have Been Derived From Certainties. In The Corrupt State Laws Are Many And Confused, Because They Have Been Derived From Uncertainties.

Laws Are Like Spiders Webs Which, If Anything Small Falls Into Them They Ensnare It, But Large Things Break Through And Escape.