Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 BC) Roman senator, speaker, and philosopher
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. -Cicero Friendship renders prosperity more brilliant, while it lightens adversity by sharing it and making its burden common.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero ~ If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third. -Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE) It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE) Extreme justice is extreme injustice. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE) Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others. -Cicero Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)-Cicero No one can give you better advice than yourself.-Cicero A room without books is like a body without a soul.-Cicero We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardour of its passion, but by its strength and constancy. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE) 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.- Cicero, 63 B.C. Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator and writer (106-43 BCE) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. -Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 B.C) My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner. -Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 B.C) If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability.- Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician) Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE) The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator and writer (106-43 BCE)
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