Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
There was more courage in bearing trouble than in escaping from it; the brave and the energetic cling to hope, even in spite of fortune; the cowardly and the indolent are hurried by their fears,' said Plotius Firmus, Roman Praetorian Guard.