It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.

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

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

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.