Fortune, Not Wisdom, Rules Lives.

For Many Wish Not So Much To Be, As To Seem To Be, Endowed With Real Virtue.

The Only Excuse For War Is That We May Live In Peace Unharmed.

Let A Man Practise The Profession He Best Knows. [lat., Quam Quisque Novit Artem, In Hac Se Exerceat.]

Please Go On, Make Your Threats. I Don't Like To Submit To Mere Implication.

If Some Lose Their Whole Fortunes, They Will Drag Many More Down With Them . . . Believe Me That The Whole System Of Credit And Finance Which Is Carried On Here At Rome In The Forum, Is Inextricably Bound Up With The Revenues Of The Asiatic Province. If Those Revenues Are Destroyed, Our Whole System Of Credit Will Come Down With A Crash.