Instead let Virtue herself, by her own unaided allurements, summon you to a glory that is genuine and real.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERODogs wait for us faithfully.
More Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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In times of war, the law falls silent.
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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
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The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
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To 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?
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.
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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
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Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
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Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
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No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.
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A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
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