Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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


Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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


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


We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


Thrift is of great revenue.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

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


Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Marcus Tullius Cicero


What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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