Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

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.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.