History is a myth that men agree to believe.
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.