Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.”

“In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.”

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

“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”

“Empire and liberty.”

“The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.”

“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”

“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”

“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.”

“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.”

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

“What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.”

“A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.”

“The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.”

“Honor is the reward of virtue.”

“In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.”

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

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

“As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.”

“Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.”