If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.