Marcus Tullius Cicero

A friend is, as it were, a second self…

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil…

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom…

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place…

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and…

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if…

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with…

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature…

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is…

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing…

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than…

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value…

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in…

To some extent I liken slavery to death…

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible…