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“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The sinews of war are infinite money.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Laws are silent in time of war.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“No sane man will dance.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
