The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.