Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

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.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.