Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.