Marcus Tullius Cicero
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.Collection: Wisdom
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.Collection: Gardening
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.Collection: Friendship
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.Collection: Veterans
To some extent I liken slavery to death.Collection: Death
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.Collection: Sympathy
An unjust peace is better than a just war.Collection: Peace
A man of courage is also full of faith.Collection: Faith
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.Collection: Marriage
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.Collection: Love
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.Collection: Peace
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.Collection: God
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.Collection: Great
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.Collection: Death
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.Collection: Nature
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.Collection: Friendship
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.Collection: Trust
While there's life, there's hope.Collection: Hope
More law, less justice.Collection: Legal
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.Collection: Legal
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.Collection: Knowledge
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.Collection: Wisdom
The sinews of war are infinite money.Collection: Money
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.Collection: Thankful
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.Collection: Experience
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.Collection: Fear
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.Collection: Peace
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.Collection: Peace
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.Collection: Independence
Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.Collection: War
In time of war the laws are silent.Collection: War
Nature abhors annihilation.Collection: Nature
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.Collection: Food
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.Collection: Truth
A home without books is a body without soul.Collection: Home
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.Collection: Knowledge
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.Collection: Legal
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.Collection: Wisdom
Hatred is inveterate anger.Collection: Anger
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.Collection: Age
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.Collection: Death
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.Collection: Health
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.Collection: Freedom
A friend is, as it were, a second self.Collection: Friendship
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.Collection: Money
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.Collection: Friendship
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.Collection: Power
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.Collection: Age
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.Collection: Men
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?Collection: Nature