If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNo one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
Marcus Tullius Cicero