“The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.”

He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

One man restored our fortunes by delay. [By skilfully avoiding an engagement, Fabius exhausted the resources of the enemy.]

A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.

One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report.

Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

One man by delaying saved the state for us.

That is true liberty, which bears a pure and firm breast.

A true friend is a friend when in difficulty.

No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.

Don’t ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

They hate whom they fear.

Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

Modularize, don’t customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

We’re going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman.