Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.

In careless ignorance they think it civilization, when in reality it is a portion of their slavery...To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.

Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.

None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.