Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.
The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
The gods are on the side of the stronger.