To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

As many servants so many enemies.

Injustice never rules forever.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

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.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.