Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant.
Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]
Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.
Most virtue lies between two vices.
