He who has great power should use it lightly.
No one can keep a mask on long.
I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.