Power won by crime no one ever yet turned to a good purpose.

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.

Keen at the start, but careless at the end.

In stirring up tumult and strife, the worst men can do the most, but peace and quiet cannot be established without virtue.

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

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.