Quotes and Close People

Quotes:
     "Patience is the greatest of all virtues."
     "Grasp the subject, the words will follow."
     "Anger so clouds the mind, that it cannot percieve the truth."
     "Even though work stops, expenses run on." ~ In On Agriculture.
     "Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise." ~In Plutarch's "Life of Cato."

Close People:
     Publius Valerius Flaccus: a very close friend of mine after my military reputation commenced to be known.
     Lucius Valerius Flaccus: my patron and co-consul when I became consul in 195 BC. He is also the man who brought me to Rome so I can therefore start my political career.
     Scipio Africanus: A man of luxury of which I despise to the bottom of Tartarus.
     Hannibal: the Carthaginian general who would have destroyed Rome for eternity.

"CARTHAGO DELENDA EST."