Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret – that man is