Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses.
Every great house is full of haughty servants.
The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.
We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?