Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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 prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”

“A friend is, as it were, a second self.”

“Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.”

“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”

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

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

“More law, less justice.”

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

“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“While there's life, there's hope.”

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

“Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.”

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”

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

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

“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”

“A home without books is a body without soul.”

“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.”

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

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