Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nature abhors annihilation.”

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

“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”

“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”

“A man of courage is also full of faith.”

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”

“While there's life, there's hope.”

“Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.”

“Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.”

“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”

““A room without books is like a body without a soul.””

“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“Advice in old age is foolish for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.”

“The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.”

“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”

“Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.”

“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.”

“Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.”

“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.”

“If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.”

“An unjust peace is better than a just war.”

“It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

“We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.”

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