"Such contentedness and change of view in regard to every kind of life does the infusion of reason bring about. When Alexander heard from Anaxarchus … - Plutarch

Others have seen the assassination as a useful reminder of the futility of such attempts at direct action. For what did it achieve? If the assassins had really wanted to quash the rise of one-man rule in Rome, if they wanted to kill the tyranny as well as the tyrant, they were strikingly unsuccessful.

Липсата на мярка е опасна във всяка област, но в политическата кариера
е направо пагубна. Тя води до явна лудост и безумие хората, облечени в голяма
власт, когато те се стремят не да прославят доброто, но да смятат славата за добро

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken little by little.