The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.

The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.

When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.