Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?

Time is not so all-erasing as we think.

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?

warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.