Power Should Be A Check On Power.

No Tyranny Is More Cruel Than The One Practised In The Shadow Of The Laws And Under Color Of Justice - When, So To Speak, One Proceeds To Drown The Unfortunate On The Very Plank By Which They Had Saved Themselves. And Since A Tyrant Never Lacks Instruments For His Tyranny, Tiberius Always Found Judges Ready To Condemn As Many People As He Might Suspect.

I Have Never Known Any Distress That An Hour's Reading Did Not Relieve.

Fain Would I Glide Down A Gentle River, But I Am Carried Away By A Torrent.

When The Body Of The People Is Possessed Of The Supreme Power, It Is Called A Democracy.

There Should Be Weeping At A Man's Birth, Not At His Death.