The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThese studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.
Marcus Tullius Cicero