Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

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

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

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

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.

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

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.