The more corrupt the state the more laws.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

In valor there is hope.

When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

If you do things well do them better. Be daring be first be different be just.

Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.

Be careful about the advice you give, especially to your children.

You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.

I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

Conclusions are ignorance arrested on the path to less ignorance.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.