For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAll the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSome men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero