He who despises fame will just as easily despise virtue.
It is easier to attract a whole crowd to yourself than to escape the cunning of one.
The cure works more slowly than the disease.
Only fools call their pleasure freedom.
The best day after the death of a bad ruler is the first day.
The best were driven by the love of country, many by the hope of plunder, others hoped to rectify their ruined situation. Both good and bad people - for different reasons, but with equal ardor - were waiting for the war.
Flatterers are the worst of enemies.
People are so built by nature that, being safe, they like to watch the dangers that threaten the other.
People pass, examples remain.
It is a small matter not to be sick; I want man to be brave, active, cheerful; and he who is praised only for his health is two steps away from illness.
Slowly but surely.
He who fears death talks a lot about death.
The mouth of the world inflates both truth and falsehood to unprecedented proportions.
We have indeed shown great patience; and if past generations have seen what it means to be free from anything, then in our case it is subjugation, because endless investigations have robbed us of the possibility to communicate with each other, to express our thoughts and to listen to others. And together with the voice we would have lost our memory itself, if oblivion had been as powerful as silence.
Only a few participated in the murder, the coup d'état, many supported it, but the majority prepared and waited for it.
What remarkable times, when you can think what you want and speak your mind.
Ironies leave mortal wounds in the soul when they are based on truth.
Our effort to please often brings about more dire consequences than the unpleasantness we cause.
The mouth of the world is not always wrong, sometimes it makes the right choice.
Unlimited power inspires no confidence.
At first the demands of the law were unyielding, but, as always happens, in the end no one bothered to follow them.
On the civil war: "A war of all against all."
In civil war, the victor will be worse than the vanquished anyway.
About Agrippina, Nero's mother: "She wanted to hand over supreme power to her son, but she could not endure his rule."
On the orators of the time of the Empire: "Obliged to flatter, they never seem sufficiently subservient to the authorities, and sufficiently independent to us."
Some and the same people like idleness and they also hate rest.
Ensuring the natural running of one's own family affairs is often as complicated as governing a province.
Unanimous approbation and glowing fame are kinder to orators than to poets; for nobody knows the mediocre poets, and the good ones, very few.
The expectation of immeasurable riches has become one of the causes of the impoverishment of the state.
Those who shout the loudest fear the most.