To Live Long, Live Slowly.

Now In Regard To Trades And Other Means Of Livelihood, Which Ones Are To Be Considered Becoming To A Gentleman And Which Ones Are Vulgar, We Have Been Taught, In General, As Follows. First, Those Means Of Livelihood Are Rejected As Undesirable Which Incur People's Ill-will, As Those Of Tax-gatherers And Usurers. Unbecoming To A Gentleman, Too, And Vulgar Are The Means Of Livelihood Of All Hired Workmen Whom We Pay For Mere Manual Labour, Not For Artistic Skill; For In Their Case The Very Wage They Receive Is A Pledge Of Their Slavery.

The Good Of The People Is The Greatest Law.

The Office Of Liberality Consisteth In Giving With Judgment.

Every Evil In The Bud Is Easily Crushed: As It Grows Older, It Becomes Stronger.

We Learn Nothing From History Except That We Learn Nothing From History.