It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

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

Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.

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.