Quotes
Quotes - Cicero
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Justice consists of doing no one injury, decency in giving no one offense.
To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.
They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
Man is his own worst enemy.
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.
