We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.