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.'

Freedom is participation in power.

There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.