To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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.'

After victory, you have more enemies.