It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.

It is a characteristic of the human mind to hate the man one has injured.