History Illumes Reality, Vitalizes Memory, Provides Guidance

If Some Lose Their Whole Fortunes, They Will Drag Many More Down With Them . . . Believe Me That The Whole System Of Credit And Finance Which Is Carried On Here At Rome In The Forum, Is Inextricably Bound Up With The Revenues Of The Asiatic Province. If Those Revenues Are Destroyed, Our Whole System Of Credit Will Come Down With A Crash.

Not To Know What Has Been Transacted In Former Times Is To Be Always A Child. If No Use Is Made Of The Labors Of Past Ages, The World Must Remain Always In The Infancy Of Knowledge.

The Aim Of Forensic Oratory Is To Teach, To Delight, To Move.

It Is Better To Receive Than To Do Injury.

Long Life Is Denied Us; Therefore Let Us Do Something To Show That We Have Lived.