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This quote about victory is fitting before an image of Rome's Colosseum.

Raphael's fresco, "The School of Athens," from the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, helps reiterate this Hippocratic translation.

The motto of the Olympics fittingly placed before a laurel.

Rodin's sculpture, "The Thinker," sitting in the garden of the Rodin museum, seems to ponder Descartes here.

Bottivelli's painting, St. Augustine in His Study, located in Uffizi, Florence, is paired with this quote from Augustine.

This quote from Vergil's Aeneid looms over these Pompeiian remains, much like Mount Vesuvius in the background.

Together this quote and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina nod to the Library of Alexandria, lost in antiquity.

Pisanello's portrait of Sigismund of Luxemburg, now in Vienna, is placed behind a quote, possibly from the king himself.

Eraser shavings serve as a nice addendum to this quote.

A weathered column stands behind this line from Tacitus.

Hans Holbein's portrait of Erasmus, at the Louvre Museum, provides a background for this Erasmus quote.

The line from Vergil's Aeneid speaks as much for the epic as it does for the Gustave Doré painting of Vergil leading Dante, from France's Musée de Brou.