Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
Conspicuous by his absence.
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.