7 Quotes by Scipio Africanus

Can I call you countrymen, who have revolted from your country ? Or soldiers, who have rejected the command and authority of your general, and violated your solemn oath ? Can I call you enemies ? I recognise the persons, faces, and dress, and mien of fellow-countrymen ; but I perceive the actions, expressions, and intentions of enemies. For what have you wished and hoped for, but what the Illitergi and Lacetani did ?

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.

I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.