Conflict
"My political opponents, if they make a mistake, can rely for protection on the resources of their relatives and marriage connections... My hopes rest only on myself... Compare me, the "new" man, with these high and mighty ones. What they know only from reading, I have seen with my own eyes or done with my own hands. What they have learned out of books, I have learned on the battlefield. They criticise my lack of famous ancestors, I criticise their lazy habits."
- Speech by Gaius Marius in the Senate