It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Men freely believe that which they desire.
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.
I am prepared to resort to anything, to submit to anything, for the sake of the commonwealth.
