Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.”

“In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.”

“Peace is liberty in tranquillity.”

“In time of war the laws are silent.”

“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.”

“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”

“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”

“Rashness belongs to youth prudence to old age.”

“Hatred is inveterate anger.”

“Hatred is settled anger.”

“Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.”

“Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.”

“The best interpreter of the law is custom.”

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”

“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.”

“I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.”

“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”

“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”

“True nobility is exempt from fear.”

“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”

“Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.”

“Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.”

“What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.”