Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
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You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
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A friend is, as it were, a second self.
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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.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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Laws are silent in time of war.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
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What is permissible is not always honorable.
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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
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The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
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Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
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No sane man will dance.