More people worship the rising sun than the setting one.

Prepared in winter, set in motion in spring, all completed by summer.

His life outlasted his power.

I have only to stamp my foot upon the earth, and armies will spring forth.

Crates with only his wallet and tattered cloak laughed out his life jocosely, as if he had been always at a festival.

-- Crates of Thebes

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

-- Pericles

I will not be led in triumph.

-- Cleopatra

Cleopatra, father-loving, the new goddess.

-- Cleopatra

It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to flay it.

-- Tiberius

If you could see the cabbages I have planted with my own hands at Salona, you would surely never think to request this.

-- Diocletian