Cicero

"Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still."

"All things are uncertain and nothing is clear."

"To add insult to injury."

"Silence is sometimes an art."

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

"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk."

"A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."

"What is the object of all human life and activity? It is pleasure."

"When you are at Rome live in the Roman style."

"The good of the people must be the measure of all government."

"To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain always a child."

"I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."

"What nobler thing can you aspire to than to be of service to your country."

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."

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

"I am reminded how hollow celebrity can feel."

"Great is our admiration of the orator who is himself admirable."

"There is nothing by which I would rather be judged than by my work."

"The greatest glory of a free people is the power to govern themselves."

"It is a physician's duty to heal the sick, to instill health, to mitigate the sufferings."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

"The people's good is the ultimate law."

"No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year."

"Summon up your courage and do the right thing."

"The most shameful thing in the world is when knowledge and performance part ways."

"Life without literature is death."

"Peace is liberty in tranquility."

"Let the punishment match the offense."

"Leisure with dignity is the reward of virtue."