What profit these considerations?
The Republic is nothing but a name, without substance or reality.

It is doomed to fall.

Sulla was a fool to abdicate the dictatorship.

Why did he not establish a despotism, and save us all this turmoil of politics?
But Lentulus Crus, Pompeius, Cato, Scipio--they are men with as much ambition, as much love of life, as myself.

The Republic will fall into their hands.
Why will it be worse off than in mine?
Why shed rivers of blood?
After death one knows no regrets.