Roman • Historian
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
Custom adapts itself to expediency.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
