He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.