Posterity will pay everyone their due.
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.
The unknown always passes for the marvellous.
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one.
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety.
Auctor nominis eius Christus,Tiberio imperitante, per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum, supplicio affectus erat. Christ, the leader of the sect, had been put to death by the procurator Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius.
Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
They make a desert and call it peace.
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
Keen at the start, but careless at the end.
It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
Remedies are more tardy in their operation than diseases.
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