History must not go beyond the boundaries of truth, and for honest deeds, one truth is enough.
History is written to establish the rigorous truth.
As in man, and in the state, the worst disease is the one that starts from the head.
Books should not be quoted, but read and reread.
Gentleness is commendable especially when the reason for the anger is perfectly justified.
A fake love is worse than hate.
Better to do nothing than to do nothing.
Better to say more than not to say what is necessary.
Men have been so seized with a passion to get rich that they seem to be more under the power of their fortunes than they are in their power.
Humans are curious by nature; knowledge of unvarnished facts does not entice those who listen with pleasure to fabricated gossip
People who are slaves to pleasures live only for one day: today is over - there is no reason to live on.
Opinions are counted, not weighed.
With the hectic bustle of a young man's life we can reconcile; the old, however, are fine with a quiet, settled life: it is too late to strain their strength, to obtain honors is shameful.
Rumors are feared by many, but conscience by few.
Youth and the prime of life must be dedicated to the country, and old age to ourselves.
Never could one man deceive all the world, nor could all the world deceive just one.
No one listens to reproaches so patiently as those who deserve praise.
No one can be wise all the time.
Those who brought their own death you mourn endlessly, when you think they might still have lived long.
You can best judge the honor of the accuser by the accusation itself.
Experience is considered the best teacher in oratory.
The orator must sometimes boast, rise, sometimes seethe, aim at the heights, and often go to the limit: near the heights there is often a precipice. The country road is more free from danger, but more obscure, those who run fall more often than those who crawl, but to the latter, even if they do not fall, no glory is due, for it belongs to those who they fell. Risk has its value in rhetoric, as in the other arts.
Orators who speak sitting, even though their speech has the same qualities as that of orators who speak standing, by being seated weaken and diminish their speech, like those who read a speech blindfolded and handcuffed, who are both useful for expressiveness. There is nothing surprising in the fact that the attention of the listeners, being in no way enslaved and in no way stimulated, weakens.
It is bad if the authorities try their power in insults; it is bad if respect is gained through terror; it's much easier to get what you want through love than through fear.
Just as the soil is renewed by different sowings, so our mind is renewed by reflections on one or the other.
Let us, therefore, endeavor, as long as we are alive, to make as little as possible of the dead to be destroyed.
Villains' loyalties are as fickle as themselves.
The habit of doing one and the same thing turns into science, but does not develop capabilities, inspires not self-confidence, but self-sufficiency.
The death of those who do immortal things is always premature.
It is justified for man to act sometimes for the sake of his own good name.