Consider, what will the war be?
Blood, the blood of the noblest Romans! The overturning of time-honoured institutions! A shock that will make the world to tremble, kings be laid low, cities annihilated! East, west, north, south--all involved--so great has our Roman world become!" "And are there not wrongs, abuses, Imperator, which cry for vengeance and for righting ?" replied Drusus, vehemently.

"Since the fall of Carthage, have not the fears of Scipio AEmilianus almost come true: Troy has fallen, Carthage has fallen; has not Rome almost fallen, fallen not by the might of her enemies, but by the decay of her morals, the degeneracy of her statesmen?
What is the name of liberty, without the semblance! Is it liberty for a few mighty families to enrich themselves, while the Republic groans?
Is it liberty for the law courts to have their price, for the provinces to be the farms of a handful of nobles ?" Caesar shook his head.
"You do not know what you say.

This is no moment for declamation.
Every man has his own life to live, his own death to die.

Our intellects cannot assure us of any consciousness the instant that breath has left our bodies.

It is then as if we had never hoped, had never feared; it is rest, peace.