Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.
What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.
He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Nature does nothing in vain.
