Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFor out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.
Marcus Tullius Cicero