In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.
Set honor in one eye and death in th' other, and I will look on both indifferently. I love then name of honor more than I fear death.
The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army