Cicero

"Greatness consists in trying and in having tried, not merely in being."

"The pursuit of truth is nobler than the acquisition of wealth."

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain status quo of liberty without any dependence upon foreign importations."

"The good of the people is the greatest law."

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

"To be ignorant of the past is to remain forever a child."

"The thirst for power is the parent of all evils."

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."

"Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it."

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

"Distrust is the poison of friendship."

"The man who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich."

"As is the gardener, such is the garden."

"When you were a king and I an exile, you did not treat me as a stranger."

"Ill will never shows itself so plainly as when a man begins to meddle with the property of others."

"The pursuit of peace and plenty is the great theme of agriculture."

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

"War never leaves where it found a nation."

"Death, therefore, is nothing at all to us."

"One can hardly make a good salad with bad oil."

"The discipline of training and obedience is often the first privilege of that kind of life."

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

"Think nothing difficult for those who love."

"Memory is the treasure-house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved."

"Without courage, the other virtues lose their meaning."

"The greatest pleasure is to vanquish your enemy without the sword."

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

"The human race rules the world by the use of reason."

"There is nothing so powerful as truth."

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