For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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.

Nature has inclined us to love men.