When they remain silent, they cry out.
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.
Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.
This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.