Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed…

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

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage…

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy…

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him…

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education…

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect…

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to…

Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase…

Nature abhors annihilation…

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even…

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but…