Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.”

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

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

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

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

“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”

“Hatred is inveterate anger.”

“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”

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

“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”

“Hatred is settled anger.”

“To live is to think.”

“True nobility is exempt from fear.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

“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.”

“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”

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

“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”