Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
A bad peace is even worse than war.
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].
Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.