The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

The real friend is another self.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.

O philosophy, you leader of life.