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“A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The more laws, the less justice.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Ability without honor is useless.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A letter does not blush.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“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
“That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“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
“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
“What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“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
“Empire and liberty.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
