Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches.
If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.
The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.