All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.

Rumor is not always wrong

The worst hatred is that of relatives.

There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.