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.

Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.

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