No Crime Can Ever Be Defended On

Toil And Pleasure, Dissimilar In Nature, Are Nevertheless United By A Certain Natural Bond.

Prosperity Engenders Sloth.

Law Is A Thing Which Is Insensible, And Inexorable, More Beneficial And More Profitious To The Weak Than To The Strong; It Admits Of No Mitigation Nor Pardon, Once You Have Overstepped Its Limits.

Better And Safer Is An Assured Peace Than A Victory Hoped For. The One Is In Your Own Power, The Other Is In The Hands Of The Gods.

Treachery, Though At First Very Cautious, In The End Betrays Itself.