Custom adapts itself to expediency.

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

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

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.