“When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.”

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

The gods are on the side of the stronger.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life.

A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

We extol ancient things, regardless of our own times. [Lat., Vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi.]

We are bound no longer by the straitjacket of the past and nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.

The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.