Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

The worst hatred is that of relatives.

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

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.

Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.