There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.

For the Stoics do not say that a god is involved with the divisions in a particular liver or particular bird calls (which would be unbefitting, and unworthy of a god, and could not possibly...

Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by...

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues

I swear I would rather be wrong with Plato than see the truth with men like these.

Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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

There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to...

A home without books is a body without soul.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay...

The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers

To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

To be ignorant of history is to remain always a child.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Wohl niemand tanzt, wenn er nüchtern ist, er müsste denn den Verstand verloren haben.

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

The more laws, the less justice.

There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal

What is becoming in behavior is honorable, and what is honorable is becoming

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to live the life of a child forever. For what is a man’s life, unless woven into the life of our ancestors by the...

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

There is no fortress so strong that money cannot take it

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things

The budget should be balanced. Public debt should be reduced. The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.

There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Non nobis solum nati sumus.(Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal.