The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.
It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead.
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.
We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.
What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where we least expect to find them.
Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions.
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
Even for learned men, love of fame is the last thing to be given up.
Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]
Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]
It is a principle of human nature to hate those whom we have injured.
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]
Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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