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

Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.

They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if poor… They ravage, they slaughter, they seize by false pretenses, and all of this they hail as the construction of empire. And when in their wake nothing remains but a desert, they call that peace.

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.