Cicero | Roman Philosopher

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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

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

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Laws are silent in times of war.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

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

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.