It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
Those who covet much suffer from the want.
If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.
A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.