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.

There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

There is nothing which power cannot believe of itself, when it is praised as equal to the gods.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

No wicked man knows happiness, and least of all the seducer of others.

He who meditates a crime secretly within himself has all the guilt of the act.