The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.

Do nothing twice over.

The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?