Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.

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.

He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

Seek to learn constantly while you live; do not wait in the faith that old age by itself will bring wisdom.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.

The ideal state is that in which an injury done to the least of its citizens is an injury done to all.

In all things that you do, consider the end.

In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Create peace within yourself so that you can spread the fragrance of peace all around the world.

Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.

Who thought up the dumb idea to arrange the memoir section in the bookstore by subject?

Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.

I like to think that it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, a stand against oblivion and despair.

Markets are very important but for the government the citizens are more so.

Because I've taken my clothes off in public doesn't mean that I've revealed every inch of my soul.