It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
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.