The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

Calamus fortior gladio.

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

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.