Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.

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.

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.

Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.

There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.

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