If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
That cannot be safe which is not honourable.
It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.