This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.
The injustice of a government is proportional to the number of its laws.
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.