My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones.

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.