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.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

But the Night Mother is mother to all! It is her voice we follow! Her will! Would you dare risk disobedience? And surely... punishment?

History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.