Not only their understandings labor continually, which is the severest labor, but their hearts are torn by the worst, most troublesome, and insatiable of all passions, by avarice, by ambition, by fear and jealousy.

No part of the mind has rest.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Pity, benevolence, friendship, are things almost unknown in high stations.
_Verae amicitiae rarissime inveniuntur in iis qui in honoribus reque publica versantur_, says Cicero.

And indeed courts are the schools where cruelty, pride, dissimulation, and treachery are studied and taught in the most vicious perfection.