The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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.
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.