One who is allowed to sin, sins less
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
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.