Cicero

"Beautiful objects pass away, but beautiful actions remain."

"The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends."

"True honor consists in doing what deserves honor."

"An unjust peace is better than a just war."

"There is nothing so ridiculous as the fear of death."

"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."

"Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child."

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

"The greater your power, the greater your responsibility."

"He alone is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither a slave to lust, nor to avarice, nor to superstition."

"The sick man is not at ease who lies upon a soft bed."

"The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long."

"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes."

"The happiness of life is made up of the little charities of a good cup of coffee, a compliment, a cheerful look or a word of encouragement."

"To create a new person is a life's work."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"In writing, the way it is done is just as important as the content."

"I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"The greatest ornament of an honorable life is Integrity."

"Everybody agrees that no one thing can be successful which is not one."

"A man of courage is also a man of sinew and muscle; in fact, a man of true courage is trembling."

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

"He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect."

"Whatever is unnatural is impious."

"Let the object of your life be to gain money, power, and rank, but let the light that illumines every effort be truth, justice, and goodness."

"Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is a great inconvenience."

"The consensus of leading men keeps the state standing."