“Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.”

-Arthur Erickson

“Ithaca has given you the beautiful voyage. Without her, you would have never set out on the road.”

– Constantine P. Cavafy.

“After a point, and so on, money stops to matter, it stops being the goal, the game is all that matters.”

-Aristotle Onassis

“Win by persuasion, not by force.”

– Ancient Greek proverb.

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

— Plato

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

– Seneca

“The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

-Aristotle

“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place.”

– Marcus Aurelius

“Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.”

– Herodotus

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.”

– Elie Wiesel