Marcus Tullius Cicero

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

To freemen, threats are impotent.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.