Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.