Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
Cicero
Profession: Statesman Nationality: Roman
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
A letter does not blush.
If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
Speaking Latin properly is indeed to be held in the highest regard – not just because of its own merits, but in fact because it has been neglected by the masses. For it is not so much Noble to know Latin as it is disgraceful not to know it.
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Did not he, then, who, if he had died at that time, would have died in all his glory, owe all the great and terrible misfortunes into which he subsequently fell to the prolongation of his life at that time?
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.