No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter

None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

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 things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

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.