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

“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.”

“It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.”

“After divorce of Pompeia in 62 BC I feel that members of my family should never be suspected of breaking the law. -Meos tam suspicione quam crimine iudico carere oportere”

“I came, I saw, I conquered.”

“They that have voice of lions and act of hares,--are they not monsters?”

“That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.”

“O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?”