The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

Eloquence wins its great and enduring fame quite as much from the benches of our opponents as from those of our friends.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.