Sallust

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's a confession. It's me acknowledging that I have withheld something important from the public.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.