No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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.
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.