Great Throughts Treasury

"You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure."

"A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it."

"A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk."

"A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all."

"A peace may be so wretched as not to be ill exchanged for war."

"A woman once fallen will shrink from no impropriety."

"Adversity deprives us of our judgment."

"All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay."

"All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon languish."

"All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome."

"All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent."

"An eminent reputation is as dangerous as a bad one."

"An honorable death is better than a dishonorable life."

"Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence."

"By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority."

"All things now held to be old were once new. - What today we hold up by example, will rank hereafter as precedent."

"All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open."

"And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt."

"As he, though carried off in the prime of life, had lived long enough for glory."

"Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks."

"Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee."

"Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution."

"Because they didn't know better, they called it 'civilization,' when it was part of their slavery."

"Everything unknown is magnified."

"Common report is not always wrong."

"Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue."

"Even war is better than a wretched peace."

"Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent."

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

"Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty."

"Fighting without concert, they suffer universal defeat."

"Experience teaches."

"Crime succeeds by sudden dispatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay."

"Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader."

"Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies."

"He possessed simplicity and liberality, qualities which beyond a certain limit lead to ruin."

"He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher."

"He shone with the greater splendor, because he was not seen."

"He possessed a peculiar talent of producing effect in whatever he said or did."

"Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility."

"He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies."

"In the opinion of all men he would have been regarded as capable of governing, if he had never governed."

"In the struggle between those seeking power there in no middle course."

"He who is next heir to supreme power, is always suspected and hated by him who actually wields it."

"It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion."

"However the marriage is there severe."

"It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured."

"It is not becoming to grieve immoderately for the dead."

"It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged."

"It was rather a cessation of war than a beginning of peace."