Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

No music is so charming to my ear as the requests of my friends, and the supplications of those in want of my assistance.

I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.