In all things there is a law of cycles.
In valor there is hope.
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.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.