This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

Men learn while they teach.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.