“This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.” Marcus Tullius Cicero FireLifeTruthWiseSparkCreatorInfinity
“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.” Marcus Tullius Cicero FriendsMean
“One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.” Marcus Tullius Cicero Education
“What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?” Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.” Marcus Tullius Cicero Best
“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.” Marcus Tullius Cicero FeelTrust
“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.” Marcus Tullius Cicero FoolNature
“Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.” Marcus Tullius Cicero MoneyStrong
“What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?” Marcus Tullius Cicero BestChild
“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.” Marcus Tullius Cicero Power
“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.” Marcus Tullius Cicero Time
“For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.” Marcus Tullius Cicero Friends
“Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.” Marcus Tullius Cicero Law
“Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.” Marcus Tullius Cicero War
“If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.” Marcus Tullius Cicero Lie
“Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.” Marcus Tullius Cicero Silence
