There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive.
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].
If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.