Cicero

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

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.

Nothing common can seem worthy of you.

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.

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

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

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

Oh what times! Oh what standards!

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

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

He used to raise a storm in a teapot.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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

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