Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, 121 - 180

Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, IV, 38

Pliny the Younger [Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus], c.61 - c.112

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it."

Pliny the Younger, Lettersm bk. III, letter 5.

Juvenal [Decimus Junius Juvenalis], c. 50 - c. 130,

For revenge is always the delight of a mean spirit, of a weak and petty mind! You may immediately draw proof of this - that no one rejoices more in revenge than a woman.

Juvenal, Satires, XIII, l. 189