Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

There are two ways to resolve conflicts, through violence or through negotiation. Violence is for wild beasts, negotiation is for human beings.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?