They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

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.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

Conspicuous by his absence.

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.