Occupation: Biographer Birth: 45 Death: 120
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics..
Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he ….
Neither blame or praise yourself..
He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war..
Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.].
Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten o….
Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy..
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever..
The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men..
Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the las….
For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being c….
There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice..
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs..
Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by sprea….
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to..
Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'..
To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature..
The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse..
It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered..
Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers..
The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle..