If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

What is dignity without honesty?

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.