I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.
Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.
Let us now relieve the Romans of their fears by the death of a feeble old man.
I was curious what would happen.
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour.
Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.