There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.