Rumor is not always wrong
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.
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.