Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Probability is the very guide of life.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

While there's life, there's hope.