Cicero

"Bad company corrupts good character."

"As is the man, so are his works."

"Abandon hope, all those who enter here. This is the text that should be written above the Assemblies of Men."

"Only a man of firm convictions can survive the storm in public life."

"The splendor of truth shines forth from noble deeds and virtuous actions."

"From my earliest youth I have made it the chief object of my life to study the voice and the instruments of music."

"The greatest pleasures come from dedication to purpose."

"Men are not to be judged by their looks, handsome though they may be."

"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

"Peace and justice constitute the true glory of a state."

"Wars are not paid for in gold; they are paid for in blood."

"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."

"Nothing is so improbable that eloquence cannot make it probable."

"A man doubting is like a horse that is half-broken. He starts at every shadow."

"Life is nothing without friendship."

"Silence is golden."

"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory in surmounting it."

"A man of courage is also master of his anger."

"We cannot live only for ourselves."

"There are as many enmities amongst us as there are differences between us."

"What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?"

"All things are uncertain, and that which may be misfortune in one regard may prove to be good fortune in another."

"While the sick man has life, he has hope."

"Dishonest gain brings heavy loss."

"The mind is the man."

"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."

"Nothing is so noble, nothing so magnificent, as the courage of a great man."

"Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

"To the wise all things lead to fortune."