Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.