"... Siquid tamen olim scripseris, in Maeci descendat iudicis auris et patris et nostras, nonumque prematur in annum membranis intus positis; delere licebit quod non edideris; nescit uox missa reuerti."

"Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci, lectorem delectando pariterque monendo."

"Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles: omne supervacuum pleno de pectore manat."

"Grais ingenium, Grais dedit ore rotundo Musa loqui, præter laudem nullius avaris. . ."

"Scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons."

"Et quae Desperat tractata nitescere posse relinquit."

"In medias res."

"Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus."

"Nec verbum verbo curabis reddere fidus Interpres."

"Difficile est proprie communia dicere."

"Format enim Natura prius nos intus ad omnem Fortunarum habitum, juvat, aut impellit ad iram, Aut ad humum moerore gravi deducit, et angit."

"Si vis me flere, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi."

"Non satis est pulchra esse poemata; dulcia sunto Et, quocumque uolent, animum auditoris agunto."

"Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio."

"Inceptis gravibus plerumque et magna professis purpureus, late qui splendeat, unus et alter adsuitur pannus."

"Natales grate numeras?"

"Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes."

"Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio."

"Interdum volgus rectum videt, est ubi peccat."

"Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit."

"Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet."

"Qualem commendes, etiam atque etiam aspice, ne mox incutiant aliena tibi peccata pudorem."

"Semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum."

"Sedit qui timuit ne non succederet."

"Nam neque divitibus contingunt gaudia solis, nec vixit male, qui natus moriensque fefellit."

"Quid velit et possit rerum concordia discors"

"Pauper enim non est, cui rerum suppetit usus. si ventri bene, si lateri est pedibusque tuis, nil divitiae poterunt regales addere maius."

"Caelum, non animum mutant, qui trans mare currunt."

"Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret."

"Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises, cum ridere voles Epicuri de grege porcum."

"Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. grata superveniet, quae non sperabitur hora."

"Inter spem curamque, timores inter et iras, Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum: Grata superveniet quae non sperabitur hora."

"Quid tandem erat causae, cur in senatum hesterno die tam acerbe cogerer? Solusne aberam, an non saepe minus frequentes fuistis, an ea res agebatur, ut etiam aegrotos deferri oporteret? Hannibal, credo, erat ad portas, aut de Pyrrhi pace agebatur, ad quam causam etiam Appium illum et caecum et senem delatum esse memoriae proditum est."

"Ita duae res, quae languorem afferunt ceteris, illum acuebant; otium et solitudo."

"Here you have a man who desired to be king of the Roman people, and who accomplished his purpose. Whoever says that this desire was right, is mad; for he approves of the destruction of laws and of liberty, and deems their foul and detestable suppression glorious. But as for him who acknowledges that it is not right to usurp sovereign power in a state which was and which ought to be free, yet that it is expedient for him who can do so, by what remonstrance, or rather by what reproach, can I strive to draw him back from so grave an error? For (ye immortal gods!) can the basest and foulest parricide committed upon his country be expedient for any man, even though he who has made himself thus guilty be called parent by the citizens whom he has brought under the yoke? Expediency, then, ought to be measured by the right, and so indeed, that the two, though expressed by different names, may have to the ear the same sound. I do not accord with the opinion of the multitude who ask what can be more expedient than the possession of sovereign power; on the other hand, I find nothing more inexpedient for him who has obtained this power unjustly, when I begin to recall reason to things as they really are. For can anxieties, solicitudes, terrors by day and by night, a life crowded full of snares and of perils, be expedient for any one? Attius says,"The throne has many faithless, loyal few.""

"How long will men dare to call anything expedient that is not right? Can odium and infamy be of service to any empire, which ought to be supported by glory and by the good-will of its allies? I was often at variance even with my friend Cato. He seemed to me to guard the treasury and the revenues too obstinately, to refuse everything to the farmers of the revenue, and many things to our allies; while we ought to be generous to our allies, and to deal with the farmers of the revenue as leniently as we individually do with our own tenants, especially as the union of orders to which such a course would conduce is for the well-being of the state."

"Honesta enim bonis viris, non occulta quaeruntur."

"Si responderint se impunitate proposita facturos, quod expediat, facinorosos se esse fateantur, si negent, omnia turpia per se ipsa fugienda esse concedant."

"Nam et secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia et adversas partiens communicansque leviores."

"Ita pulcherrima illa et maxime naturali carent amicitia per se et propter se expetita nec ipsi sibi exemplo sunt, haec vis amicitiae et qualis et quanta sit. Ipse enim se quisque diligit, non ut aliquam a se ipse mercedem exigat caritatis suae, sed quod per se sibi quisque carus est. Quod nisi idem in amicitiam transferetur, verus amicus numquam reperietur; est enim is qui est tamquam alter idem."

"Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt."

"A: Nunc rationem, quo ea me cumque ducet, sequar."

"Vi et armis."

"Sed quo beneficio? quod me Brundisi non occideris?"

"Quod est aliud, patres conscripti, beneficium latronum, nisi ut commemorare possint iis se dedisse vitam, quibus non ademerint? Quod si esset beneficium, numquam, qui illum interfecerunt, a quo erant conservati, quos tu clarissimos viros soles appellare, tantam essent gloriam consecuti. Quale autem beneficium est, quod te abstinueris nefario scelere? Qua in re non tam iucundum mihi videri debuit non interfectum me a te quam miserum te id impune facere potuisse. Sed sit beneficium, quandoquidem maius accipi a latrone nullum potuit; in quo potes me dicere ingratum? An de interitu rei publicae queri non debui, ne in te ingratus viderer?"

"Hoc qui non videt, excors; qui, cum videt, decernit, impius est."

"Reddite igitur, patres conscripti, ei vitam, cui ademistis. Vita enim mortuorum in memoria est posita vivorum."