All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.