Cicero

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellowmen.

To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.