Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

The most seditious is the most cowardly.

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.

In valor there is hope.

Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.