Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
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.
Anger is a short madness.
Don't carry logs into the forest.
In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.