Persius [Aulus Persius Flaccus] A.D. 34 - 62

Tell, priests, what is gold doing in a holy place?

Persius, Satires, II, l. 69

Lucius Annaeus Seneca c. 4 B.C. - A.D. 65

A good mind possesses a kingdom.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Thyestes, 380.

Aristotle 384 - 322 B.C.

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle, From DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec. 18

Plato c. 428 - 348 B.C.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

Plato, Dialogues, Apology, 38.