By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.

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.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.

When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.