A small debt makes a man your debtor, a large one your enemy.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

He who wants Lent to seem short should contract a debt to be repaid at Easter

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should betempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands shouldbe curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. 55 B.C.