It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

The freedom of poetic license.

On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

Life without learning is death.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!