Cicero

“Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.”

“Constant practice devoted to one subject often prevails over both ability and skill.”

“A true friend is, as it were, a second self.”

“Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.”

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

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

“We are not born for ourselves alone; a part of us is claimed by our nation, another part by our friends.”

“There is nothing so absurd that it has not been said by some philosopher.”

“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever.”

“The beginnings of all things are small.”

“True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.”