It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

I am going to Spain to fight an army without a general, and thence to the East to fight a general without an army.

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

It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

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