Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.