“All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.”

The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

In all things there is a law of cycles.

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.]

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left but in fomenting discord.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]