An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
All art is an imitation of nature.
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.