Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”

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

“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child.”

“Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.”

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.”

“The life given us by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

“In times of war, the law falls silent.”

“O tempora! O mores!”

“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“The pursuit, and not the possession, is the delight.”

“The sinews of war are infinite money.”

“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”

“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.”

“No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.”

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”

“While there's life, there's hope.”

“The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.”