“To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.”

“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”

“Think of it. Fifteen whole years-no small part of a mans life.-taken from us-all the most energetic have fallen to the cruelty of the emperor. And the few that survive are no longer what we once were. Yet I find some small satisfaction in acknowledging the bondage we once suffered. Tacitus, The Agricola”

“If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.”

“It is a principle of nature to hate those whom you have injured.”

“Who, to say nothing about the perils of an awful and unknown sea, would have left Asia or Africa or Italy to look for Germany?”

“Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.”