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.

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

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

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

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

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.

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.