If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

When time and need require, we should resist with all our might, and prefer death to slavery and disgrace.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.