• True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero: True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting.
    "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, Book II, section 43, 44 B.C..