The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

Always the same thing.

It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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.'