The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less with baldness.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.
By doubting we come at truth.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
More law, less justice.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
In time of war the laws are silent.
Hatred is settled anger.
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
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