Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Reason and calm judgment: the qualities especially belonging to a leader.

It is always easier to requite an injury than a service: gratitude is a burden, but revenge is found to pay.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.