That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
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 of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.