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.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

Kindness is produced by kindness.