Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.
No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.
Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.