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

A weathered column stands behind this line from Tacitus.

An Athenian tetradrachm provides the background for this quote from Plautus.

Theatrical masks on a Roman mosaic from the Capitoline Museums drive home Plautus's point.

An open book lies behind this quote, possibly from Sir Francis Bacon.

Seneca's words work well with this photograph of the Eagle nebula, "Pillars of Creation," captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

A bust of Cicero in the Capitoline Museums is behind this line from Cicero.

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

Eraser shavings serve as a nice addendum to this quote.

The Pseudo-Athlete of Delos, from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, illustrates this line from Juvenal.

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

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