If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

Let [children] be able to do all things, and love to do only the good.

I speak the truth, not my fill of it, but as much as I dare speak; and I dare to do so a little more as I grow old.

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

As far as I am concerned, no road that would lead us to health is either arduous or expensive.

The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.