How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

Hatred is settled anger.

The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?