“It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and...” — Julius Caesar Quote

“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.”

“Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.”

“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.”

“Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.”

“Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.”

“Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.”