To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?"Cicero, Orator, 46 BCBy way of 'Dictator' by Robert Harris, 2015

If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

No man in his senses will dance.

Thou shouldst eat to live not live to eat.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Man is his own worst enemy.

What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Certain signs precede certain events.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.

If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost he need never regret his limited ability.

It is fortune not wisdom that rules man's life.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue not a companion in vice.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

As in the case of wines that improve with age the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

A friend is as it were a second self.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Hatred is settled anger.

To the sick while there is life there is hope.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

When you have no basis for an argument abuse the plaintiff.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

To live long it is necessary to live slowly.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.

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

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.

Oh what times! Oh what standards!

Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.

O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!

Honor is the reward of virtue.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Socrates indeed when he was asked of what country he called himself said "Of the world" for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body but can never be so in mind.