"Would that I were still young and strong as I was in those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak both out of good will and for the respect due to a brave soldier; but now peo…"

"No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time."

"The difficulty is to know when you have found your ideal."

"A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much."

"Man is the vainest of all creatures that have their being upon earth."