I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.
Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever.
