Marcus Tullius Cicero

The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.

No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.

The beginnings of all things are small.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

The foundation of justice is good faith.

I am never less alone than when alone.

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside._x000D_ _x000D_ Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Peace is freedom in tranquility.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? In heaven's name,Catiline, how long will you abuse ourpatience?

Frugality includes all the other virtues.