Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

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.

The worst crimes were dared by a few, willed by more and tolerated by all.

The gods are on the side of the stronger.

Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.

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