No fool can be silent at a feast.

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.

For better or for worse, but not for lunch, ...

With persistence and never-ending improvements you can be the best.

Utilising the Power of Your Heart is the most significant choice you will make in life.

We may run into many downfalls in life, but with a mighty God on our side those downfalls have already been defeated.

A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

You can stay young as long as you learn.

I am constantly trying to figure things out, and writing and decompressing is a way for me to analyze and try and grow and understand.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.

If you love the wrong people it's still love, isn't it, no matter what kind of love.