The worst hatred is that of relatives.
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
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.