He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]
Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.
Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses.
The gods alone know, what kind of wife a man will have.
The abuse of cabmen in a block.
Whatever guilt is perpetrated by some evil prompting, is grievous to the author of the crime. This is the first punishment of guilt that no one who is guilty is acquitted at the judgment seat of his own conscience.