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.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

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

He has no worse enemy than himself.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Philosophy is the true mother of science.

We all are imbued with the love of praise.