The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERONatural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Freedom is participation in power.
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Life is nothing without friendship.
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It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
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A friend is a second self.
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Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
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Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast .
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
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Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy?
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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
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Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
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Endless money forms the sinews of war.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
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But I must at the very beginning lay down this principle—friendship can only exist between good men.
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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For the whole life of a philosopher is, as the same philosopher says, a meditation on death.
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Books: our unfailing companions.
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What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.
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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.
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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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