Cicero
Also known by the anglicized name Tully, in and after the Middle Ages, was an orator and statesman of Ancient Rome.
Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
Una navis est iam bonorum omnium.
Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.
He is never less at leisure than when at leisure.
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Non enim omnis error stultitia est dicenda.
True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can anything feigned be lasting.
Let the punishment match the offense.
Laudandum adulescentem, ornandum, tollendum.
Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit.
For of all gainful professions, nothing is better, nothing more pleasing, nothing more delightful, nothing better becomes a well-bred man than agriculture.
Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
The following two quotes are sometimes wrongly attributed to Cicero. In fact, they come from a novel about Cicero by Taylor Caldwell, and are not found in any of Cicero's actual writings.
For with what eyes of the mind was your Plato able to see that workhouse of such stupendous toil, in which he makes the world to be modelled and built by God? What materials, what bars, what machines, what servants, were employed in so vast a work? How could the air, fire, water, and earth, pay obedience and submit to the will of the architect? From whence arose those five forms, of which the rest were composed, so aptly contributing to frame the mind and produce the senses? It is tedious to go through all, as they are of such a sort that they look more like things to be desired than to be discovered.
Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Quid enim est aetas hominis, nisi ea memoria rerum veterum cum superiorum aetate contexitur? (120)