It is better to rule no one than to be another man's slave: without ruling, one can still live honourably; as a slave, no condition of life is possible at all.

O Zeus, do not forget who is the cause of these evils.

We must indeed escape, but with our hands, not our feet.

Thus always to tyrants.

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size or diversified in subject, has ever surpassed my courage.

-- Peter Paul Rubens

So long as you officials do not hand out appointments recklessly, why should you fear what the people of the realm say?

-- Wu Zetian

Seek knowledge, even as far as China.

-- Harun al-Rashid

Antiochus, having attempted to plunder the temple of Bel at Elymaïs, was killed by the local inhabitants.

-- Antiochus III the Great

Thus always to tyrants.

-- Marcus Junius Brutus

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

-- Mark Antony