If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance; but since nature has so decreed that we cannot manage comfortably with them, nor live in any way without them, we must plan for our lasting preservation rather than for our temporary pleasure.

If we could survive without a wife, citizens of Rome, all of us would do without that nuisance.

Practice, the master of all things.

To seek to keep the established constitution unchanged argues a good citizen and a good man.

We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.