If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you... - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."

"O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life."

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."