If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.