Proclivius est injuriae quam beneficio vicem exsolvere, quia gratia oneri, ultio in quastu habetur. —Tacitus. Histories, Book IV, 2 ↩
Quod omnia mala exempla ex bonis initiis orta sunt. —Sallust. Bellum Catilinae, 51 ↩
“Viva la sua morte e muoia la sua vita.” The quotation does not seem to be from the De Monarchia. ↩
Tum pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem
—Virgil. Aeneid, Book I, 154
Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant.
Nos Maurusii qui fugimus a facie Jesu latronis filii Navae. —Procopius. De Bello Vandalico, Vol. II ↩
Saevior armis
—Juvenal. Satires, Satire VI, 292
Luxuria occubuit victumque ulciscitur orbem.
Nam facetiae asperae, quando nimium ex vero traxere, acrem sui memoriam relinquunt. —Tacitus. Annals, Book XV, 68 ↩
“Quod quotidie aggregatur aliquid quod quandoque indiget curatione.” ↩
Tacitus. Histories, Book IV, 8. ↩
Ad generum Cereris sine caede et vulnere pauci
—Juvenal. Satires, Satire X, 112
Descendunt reges, et sicca morte tiranni.
Professus ante inter suos, ire se ad exercitum sine duce, et inde reversurum ad ducem sine exercitu. —Suetonius. The Lives of the Caesars, Book I, 34 ↩
“In multitudine regenda plus poena quam obsequium valet.” But compare Annals, Book III, 55, “Obsequium inde in principem et aemulandi amoi validioi quam poena ex legibus et metus.” ↩
Flavio Biondo. Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decades, II, Liber IX, Basle ed. 1559, p. 337. ↩
The heraldic Lion of Florence. ↩
E quel che fa il signer, fanno poi molti;
—La Rappresentazione di San Giovanni e Paolo
Chè nel signer son tutti gli occhi volti.
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