No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.
Cornelius Nepos
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent
Plato
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
Caesar Augustus
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Augustine of Hippo
There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
Homer
Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
The Iliad Homer
Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.
Marcius Porcius Cato
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.