Once killing starts, it is difficult to draw the line.

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.

It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

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

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.