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

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.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

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

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.

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