Marcus Tullius Cicero

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.