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Of all the gifts of the gods to the human race, philosophy is the richest, the most beautiful, the most exalted.
~ in De Legibus
Philosophy is the best medicine for the mind.
History, the evidence of time, the light of truth, the life of memory, the directress of life, the herald of antiquity, committed to immortality.
~ in De Oratore
You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.
~ in On Friendship
Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.
~ in On Friendship
If you take away emotion, what difference remains I don’t say between a man and a beast, but between a man and a stone or a log of wood, or anything else of that kind.
~ in On Friendship
The more laws the less justice.
~ in De Officiis
Men decide many more problems by hate, love, lust, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some similar emotions, than by reason or authority or any legal standards, or legal precedents, or law.
~ in De Oratore
In fact, the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable to it.
Thought is free.
~ in Pro Milone
Pleasure has no fellowship with virtue.
~ in De Senectute
For clearly death is negligible, if it utterly annihilates the soul, or even desirable, if it conducts the soul to some place where it is to live for ever. Surely no other alternative can be found. What, then, shall I fear, if after death I am destined to be either not unhappy or happy.
~ in De Senectute
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
~ Cicero, Tusculanarum Disputationum, 2.21
What can be more noble than the government of the state by virtue? For then the man who rules others is not himself a slave to any passion, but has already acquired for himself all those qualities to which he is training and summoning his fellows. Such a man imposes no laws upon the people that he does not obey himself, but puts his own life before his fellow-citizens as their law.
~ Cicero, in Republic
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly should we walk.
To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.
Virtue is its own reward.
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