Everyone has his besetting sin.

It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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

For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.