Hunger is the best sauce.

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Let reason govern desire.

Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.