“I love treason but hate a traitor.”

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.

In extreme danger fear feels no pity.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

It is the right of war for conquerors to treat those whom they have conquered according to their pleasure.

Let us go where the gods have shown us the way and the injustice of our enemies calls us.

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.