To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.
Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.