What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.

Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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.