People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.
The gods are on the side of the stronger.
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.