Honor Is Unknown In Despotic States.

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.

People Here Argue About Religion Interminably, But It Appears That They Are Competing At The Same Time To See Who Can Be The Least Devout.

There Have Never Been So Many Civil Wars As In The Kingdom Of Christ.

...when The Laws Have Ceased To Be Executed, As This Can Only Come From The Corruption Of The Republic, The State Is Already Lost.

When A Government Is Arrived To That Degree Of Corruption As To Be Incapable Of Reforming Itself, It Would Not Lose Much By Being New Moulded.