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

“There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.”

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”

“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.”

“A bad peace is worse than war.”

“It is a principle of nature to hate those whom you have injured.”

“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”