A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

From abundance springs satiety.

Prosperity engenders sloth.

Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.