25 quotes
"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable, than loyalty."
- Cicero
Love
"The First Bond of Society is Marriage."
- Cicero
Love
"Let your desires be ruled by reason."
- Cicero
Belief
"Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed."
- Cicero
Belief
"The life of the dead is placed in the heart of the living."
- Cicero
Belief
"Frugality includes all the other virtues."
- Cicero
Balance
"Of the three forms of government, monarchy, aristocracy, and the people, the best is a mixture of all three for each one taken on its own can lead to disaster. Kings can be capricious, aristocrats, self-interested, and an unbridled multitude enjoying unwanted power more terrifying then a conflagration or a raging sea."
- Cicero
Balance
"A happy life consists in tranquility of mind."
- Cicero
Happiness
"[There is] no nobler motive for entering public life then the resolution not to be ruled by wicked men."
- Cicero
Integrity
"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
- Cicero
Inspiration
"To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses."
- Cicero
Adversity
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others, and in teamwork, it breeds success."
- Cicero
Teamwork
"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."
- Cicero
Belief in Self
"Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself."
- Cicero
Belief in Self
"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."
- Cicero
Healing
"There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace."
- Cicero
Contentment
"What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
- Cicero
Education
"Cui bono? To whose benefit?"
- Cicero
Wisdom
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues."
- Cicero
Gratitude
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."
- Cicero
Gratitude
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others"
- Cicero
Gratitude
"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues."
- Cicero
Gratitude
"Omnium rerum mors est extremum. Death is the end of all things."
- Cicero
Philosophy
"To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul."
- Cicero
Philosophy
"Salus populi suprema lex esto [the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law]."
- Cicero
Philosophy