Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

To those who are engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words.

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of credit and finance which is carried on here at Rome in the Forum, is inextricably bound up with the revenues of the Asiatic province. If Those revenues are destroyed, our whole system of credit will come down with a crash.

The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

To remain ignorant of history is to remain forever a child