Quotes from Marcus Tullius Cicero

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

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

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

There is no place more delightful than home.

What is more agreeable than one's home?

What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

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

Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.