If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
The good of the people is the greatest law.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
More law, less justice.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
A home without books is a body without soul.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
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.
While there's life, there's hope.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
To live is to think.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
