An idle life always produces varied inclinations.
As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.