For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.
For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.
Everything is alive... Everything is interconnected.
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence.