A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.
Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.
The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.
The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.
It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength.