All go free when multitudes offend.
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
...Men fear what they themselves have imagined.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.