The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

What is more agreeable than one's home?

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

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.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

The works of nature must all be accounted good.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.