“We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]”

In all things there is a law of cycles.

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

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

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

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.

Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

The unknown always passes for the marvellous.

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.