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.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected.

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.

I love treason but hate a traitor.