Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.