Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.