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.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.

The hatred of relatives is the most violent.