When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

He who suffers, remembers.

Guilt is present in the very hesitation, even though the deed be not committed.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.