Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Children ought to be led to honorable practices by means of encouragement and reasoning, and most certainly not by blows and ill treatment.

For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich.

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.