Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Kindness is produced by kindness.

Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

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

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

To give and receive advice - the former with freedom, and yet without bitterness, the latter with patience and without irritation - is peculiarly appropriate to geniune friendship.

Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.