It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
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.