If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.