The gossip pollutes three people: the gossiped, the listener and himself.
The bread that you keep in your barns belongs to the hungry; the cloak in your chest belongs to the empty one; the gold you took out of the ground belongs to the poor.
Chastity in old age is not chastity, but the weakness of impotence: the dead man no longer marries.
What has been consistently understood in a certain way must be changed as little as possible.
It is absolutely unfair not to accept gifts from anyone, but it is very ugly to greedily take everything.
To know the laws is to accept not the letter but the content and the spirit.
And do not consider that something is better and juster only according to the opinion of the majority of the competent, because the opinion of one insignificant man, in a given matter, may be better than the opinion of the many and more competent.
Truth shines in its own way, and need not light up minds like the flame of a fire.
Freedom from slavery belongs to the peoples' right.
Justice is the firm and permanent will to give everyone justice.
Freedom is the natural possibility of everyone to do whatever he likes, if it is not prohibited by force or law.
A holy thing is priceless.
There is nothing in the world more important than the power of the law, which sets things divine and human in order and removes all injustice.
It is a crime to plot against someone.
The faith of the coward and the fool is no support for the master.
Who could not interweave courage, mind and faith in his soul, That is a courtesan for kings, not a true servant!
Betrayal now promises many benefits, For it has become an act of courage for man.
The servant will not betray his master, If he has the power, And will not leave his master in need, If he knows that she will be rewarded. But when the master is dead, Who will selflessly continue to serve In thanks for past reward?
Undue honor is more bitter than an insult.
Mind and courage are nothing when faith is left out.
The greedy soul is the source of all evil deeds.
Fools always think of their enemies as weak.
You do not always notice the thoughtful and eloquent man before you talk to him: he is like the fire hidden in the brambles, which, when it manifests itself, raises its tumult into the air.
The sick must not hide his illness from the doctor, nor the poor his poverty from his friends.
The storm does not harm the small trees, but the big ones, breaking them, uproots them.
In the time of temptation all misfortunes gather.
Fools always hate the wise, the ignorant, the learned, the wicked, the pure, the corrupt, the good.
Whoever plots against his neighbor will fall into the pit dug by himself.
Even if the enemy is powerless, a wise counselor of the emperor will not allow him to start a battle, when peace can bring the same benefits.
The tree, even if it has been cut down with the ax will grow again; and the wound of the arrow shall be healed and pass away. But the sting of the word is unhealable, because it hits right in the heart.