It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or enter their council; many, indeed, after escaping from battle, have ended their infamy with the halter.

Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.