Cato the Younger

"A man without ambition is dead."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"He who controls the past controls the future."

"Better late than never."

"Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

"The secret to change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."

"We cannot live only for ourselves."

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate."

"Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

"Time is the most precious thing a man can spend."

"Men desire to be happy with women, but women want to be understood."

"A man is but the product of his thoughts; what he thinks, he becomes."

"The quality of mercy is not strained."

"True strength lies in submission which is the opposite of what the world teaches."

"The greatest discoveries of all time have been made by men who dared to think differently."

"Bad men excuse their faults; good men leave them."

"The end of labor is to gain leisure."

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

"I am what I am. That is, what I believe myself to be."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul."

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."