"Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past...." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity.”

“When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.”

“There is nothing more shocking than to see assertion and approval dashing ahead of cognition and perception.”

“Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.”

“On my way out I was even going to shake his hand, but I remembered just in time that I'd killed a man.”

“To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?”

“Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.”

“No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.”

“There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I'd changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I'd go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head.”