Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

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.

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.

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.

Without complexity, there's no intensity.

I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.

Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.

War was forced upon mankind in his original civil and social condition.

To say more, is to say less.

The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.

He lives. I breathe. I want. Him. Always. Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever. -Mac

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

I was thinking back to all the time in the gym, working hard, and that spurred me on [winning New York marathon just ten months after giving birth

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.