Cicero
Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.
Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Law stands mute in the midst of arms.
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
The freedom of poetic license.
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.
Let the punishment match the offense.
The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Endless money forms the sinews of war.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.