It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

The sinews of war are infinite money.