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

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.