They make solitude, which they call peace.
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.
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].
By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.