Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
Posterity will pay everyone their due.
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].
They make a desert and call it peace.
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.