Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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.
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.