VII. For I do not approve of the same nation being the ruler and the farmer of lands. But both in private families and in the affairs of the Commonwealth I look upon economy as a revenue.
Faith (fides) appears to me to derive its name from that being done (fit) which is said.
In a citizen of rank and noble birth, caressing manners, display, and ambition are marks of levity.
Examine for a while the books on the Republic, and learn that good men know no bound or limit in consulting the interests of their country. See in that treatise with what praises frugality, and continency, and fidelity to the marriage tie, and chaste, honorable, and virtuous manners are extolled.
VIII. I marvel at the elegant choice, not only of the facts, but of the language. If they dispute (jurgant). It is a contest between well-wishers, not a quarrel between enemies, that is called a dispute (jurgium),
Therefore the law considers that neighbors dispute (jurgare) rather than quarrel (litigare) with one another.
The bounds of man’s care and of man’s life are the same; so by the pontifical law the sanctity of burial * * *
They put them to death, though innocent, because they had left those men unburied whom they could not rescue from the sea because of the violence of the storm.
449Nor in this discussion have I advocated the cause of the populace, but of the good.
For one cannot easily resist a powerful people if one gives them either no rights at all or very little.