What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWhat can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTimes are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIt is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROEndless money forms the sinews of war.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROIs not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROInstead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROTo be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERODiseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROThe life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROA friend is a second self.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROWe are all servants of the laws in order to be free.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROLiberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICEROFor the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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