But dying is a pleasure / When living is a pain.
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
Men are but children of a larger growth.
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
They that possess the prince possess the laws.