The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
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.
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.