Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.