Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The sinews of war are infinite money.”

“You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.”

“Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.”

“But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.”

“The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.”

“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”

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

“No sane man will dance.”

“A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.”

“To live is to think.”

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

“The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.”

“Thrift is of great revenue.”

“Hatred is inveterate anger.”

“One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.”

“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”

“I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.”

“People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.”

“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”

“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”