It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

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.