Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence.

Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

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

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.