Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Gaius Cassius Longinus
Roman Senator. Rhetorician, Philosopher and leading instigator of the plot to kill Julius Caesar
"Love of pleasure is the disease which makes men most despicable."
"In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."
"There are three ways whereby a man may become great: being loyal, telling the truth and not thinking idle thoughts."
"Whom did it benefit?"