"In men of the highest character and..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.”

“To live long it is necessary to live slowly.”

“Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.”

“I know nothing more worthy of a man's ambition than that his son be the best of men.”

“It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.”

“If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope.”

“Yes, they have more money.”

“So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.”

“What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!”