Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground.

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are

The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.