Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
All go free when multitudes offend.
Not a stone but has its history.
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.