The hatred of those who are near to us is most violent.
There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.
The persecution of genius fosters its influence.
To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.]
They make solitude, which they call peace.
In all things there is a kind of law of cycles. [Lat., Rebus cunctis inest quidam velut orbis.]
The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in former times, it was not by land but on shipboard that those who sought to emigrate would arrive; and the boundless and, so to speak, hostile ocean beyond us,is seldom entered by a sail from our world.
Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
Reckless adventure is the fool's hazard.
Even honor and virtue make enemies, condemning, as they do, their opposites by too close a contrast.
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
Conspicuous by his absence.
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]
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