Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
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.
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.