Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.