This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.

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.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.