Satius est petere fontes quam sectari rivulos.
It is better to repair to the source, than to follow streamlets.
Scriptæ obligationes scriptis tolluntur, et nudi consensus obligatio, contrario consensu dissolvitur.
Written obligations are taken away by writs; and the obligation of a mere consent is dissolved by a contrary consent.
Scire leges non hoc est, verba earum tenere, sed vim ac potestatem.
To know the laws, is not to understand their words, but their force and power.
Scire proprie est rem ratione et per causam cognoscere.
To know, is properly to comprehend a matter, by reason, or by its cause.
Secundum naturam est, commoda cujusque rei eum sequi quem sequentur incommoda.
It is according to nature that the advantages of any thing follow him, whom its disadvantages will follow.