Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind."

"So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge."

"Laws are silent in time of war."

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."

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

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

"Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty."

"In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy."

"Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom."

"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just."

"A man of courage is also full of faith."

"An unjust peace is better than a just war."

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

"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body."

"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."

"Hatred is inveterate anger."

"Hatred is settled anger."

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

"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."

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

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

"More law, less justice."

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

"Nature abhors annihilation."

"Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage."

"Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money."

"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"

"Peace is liberty in tranquillity."

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed."

"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."

"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."

"The sinews of war are infinite money."

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

"There are more men ennobled by study than by nature."

"Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature."

"To live is to think."