“Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.”

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

We have not to fear anything, except fear itself.

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Men’s minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‘The unexpected’.

I love treason but hate a traitor.

Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.

I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one’s army.

He conquers twice, who shows mercy to the conquered.

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

My sons and their wives landed on Mars to start another race.

She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o’ mine.

Through the feigned fury of divine emotion, the wife of the great one will be badly wronged. Judges, wishing to condemn such a doctrine, the victim will be sacrificed to the ignorant people.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

Bad husbands will make bad wives.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.