"Passing the Rubicon. When he arrived at the banks of the Rubicon, which divides Cisalpine Gaul from the rest of Italy…"

"Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!""

"Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield…"

"Ἡ ἀνάπαυσις τῶν πόνων ἐστὶν ἄρτυμα."

"Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them,…"

"The great god Pan is dead."

"He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush."

"Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all."

"Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty."

"The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting."