There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

The worst hatred is that of relatives.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.