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.

The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

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

It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.