Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

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

Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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 planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.