When a mischief has grown up in, or against a State, it is safer to temporize with it than to meet it with violence XXXIV.

That the authority of the Dictator did good and not harm to the Roman Republic; and that it is, not those powers which are given by the free suffrages of the People, but those which ambitious Citizens usurp for themselves that are pernicious to a State XXXV.

Why the creation of the Decemvirate in Rome, although brought about by the free and open suffrage of the Citizens, was hurtful to the liberties of that Republic XXXVI.

That Citizens who have held the higher offices of a Commonwealth should not disdain the lower XXXVII.

Of the mischief bred in Rome by the Agrarian Law: and how it is a great source of disorder in a Commonwealth to pass a law opposed to ancient usage with stringent retrospective effect XXXVIII.