I have loved war too much; do not imitate me in this.

I am the State.

Every time I fill a vacant post, I make a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

This mind is luminous — what more is there to say?

-- Wang Yangming

Equanimity.

-- Antoninus Pius

Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.

-- Cicero

The play is over; applaud.

-- Augustus

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

-- Mark Antony

The school is and will always remain a matter of state.

-- Maria Theresa of Austria