Be gentle with the young.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.

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.

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.