To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

The hatred of those who are near to us is the most violent

Rumor is not always wrong

Posterity gives every man his true value.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause...

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

Bitter the jest when satire comes too near truth and leaves a sharp sting behind it

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns

The desire for fame is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise

The Romans brought devestation, but they called it peace.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being...

The gods are on the side of the stronger

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Forbidden things have a secret charm

Custom adapts itself to expediency

It is only necessary to make war with five things: with the maladies of the body, with the ignorance of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the sedition of the city, with...

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

When monarchs through their bloodthirsty commanders lay waste a country, they dignify their atrocity by calling it “Making Peace

One who is allowed to sin, sins less