Marcus Tulius Cicero

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

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

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.