“My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can ne...”

“While there's life, there's hope.”

“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”

“It is foolish to tear ones hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare ones self to die.”

“I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.”

“One and God make a majority.”

“A minority may be right a majority is always wrong.”

“You did it... now you should pay... that's how the world works.”

“The intelligence of cinema-goers should be respected.”

“Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.”

“The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government”

“Republics are ungrateful.”

“A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.”