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.
The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt