Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Mais l'extrême justice est une extrême injure.—Voltaire: Œdipus, act iii. sc. 3.

[704:4] Pliny the Younger says (book vi. letter xvi.) that Pliny the Elder said this during the eruption of Vesuvius: "Fortune favours the brave."

[704:5] Cicero: Tusculan Questions, book iii. 30.

[705:1] A proverbial expression, which, according to Suetonius, was frequently in the mouth of Tiberius Cæsar.

[705:2] All things are in common among friends.—Diogenes Laertius: Diogenes, vi.

[705:3] Cicero quotes this passage (Tusculan Questions, book iii.), and the maxim was a favourite one with the Stoic philosophers.

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CICERO.  106-43 b. c.

For as lack of adornment is said to become some women, so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight.[705:4]

De Oratore. 78.