It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.

This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.