The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.
In all things there is a law of cycles.
They make a desert and call it peace.
People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
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.
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.