Pleasures are enhanced by a moderate indulgence.
One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.
Some men make fortunes, but not to enjoy them for, blinded by avarice, they live to make fortunes.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
The people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now concerns itself no more, and longs eagerly for just two things: bread and circuses!