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All go free when multitudes offend.

Among those who share a throne there can be no loyalty; Dominion's ever impatient consort.

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states.

Believing nothing does whilst there remained anything else to be done.

Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared.

Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.

Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.

He is covered by the heavens who has no sepulchral urn.

How blind men are to Heaven's gifts!

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.

Make us enemies of every people on earth, but save us from civil war.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.

Not a stone but has its history.

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

The abode of God, too, is wherever is earth and sea and air, and sky and virtue. Why further do we seek the Gods of heaven? Whatever thou dost behold and whatever thou dost touch, that is Jupiter.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved.

The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

Why seek the Deity further? Whatever we see is God, and wherever we go.

hic sacra domus carique penates, hic mihi Roma fuit.

quod defles, illud amasti.