Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.
Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.
Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.
It is better to receive than to do injury.
It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.