A quote can uplift you, inspire you, motivate you, educate you, support you, or even provoke you.
Quotes are the remains of sentences, paragraphs, chapters, essays, books and conversations, the rest may have been forgotten or overlooked but there is a reason these quotes (and many, many others) have stayed in the forefront.
Their value does not diminish with age, on the contrary, their worth grows with every person they inspire or teach. You can walk past a thousand of them