Cicero

Malim equidem indisertam prudentiam quam stultitiam loquacem.

History is indeed the witness of times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity; by what other voice, if not that of the orator, is immortality commended?

Salus populi suprema lex esto.

True glory takes root and spreads; all pretenses quickly fall like flowers, and nothing feigned can last.

Dum spiro, spero.

The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next, our children; then the whole family of our house.

Virtutis enim laus omnis in actione consistit.

The beginnings of all things are small.

He was never less idle than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone.

We place the happy life in the security of the mind and in freedom from all obligations.

Therefore, young people seem to me to die in such a way that they are overwhelmed by the force of flames when faced with a multitude of waters, while old people die in a manner akin to a fire that is extinguished without any force applied to it; and just as unripe fruit is hardly plucked from trees, but ripe and cooked fruit falls off, so the force takes life from the young, while maturity takes it from the old; which indeed seems to me so pleasant that, the closer I get to death, I feel as if I am about to see land and eventually arrive in port after a long voyage.

For philosophy accomplishes this: it heals the mind, removes empty anxieties, frees from desires, and drives away fears.

He plants trees whose shade another age will enjoy.