Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whatever you do, do with all your might.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.
He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Hatred is inveterate anger.
What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
Before beginning, plan carefully.
I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
While there's life, there's hope.
The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
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.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Hatred is settled anger.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
Thrift is of great revenue.
Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
A letter does not blush.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
