He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]
The belly has no ears.
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.
Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.