I excelled all in influence, although I had no more power than the others who were my colleagues in office.

I found Rome a city of brick and left it a city of marble.

The play is over; applaud.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

-- Pericles

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

-- Erasmus

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

-- Tenzin Gyatso

Among the people there is no possession so esteemed as the state / yet there is no state in this world like one breath of good health.

-- Suleiman the Magnificent

He who loves not wine, women and song, remains a fool his whole life long

-- Martin Luther

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

-- Albert Ellis