If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.