Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful