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.

I like myself, but I won’t say I’m as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europe.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The mind of each man is the man himself

There is a story that Simonides was dining at the house of a wealthy nobleman named Scopas at Crannon in Thessaly, and chanted a lyric poem which he had composed in honor of his host,...

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore

Nam eloquentiam quae admirationem non habet nullam iudico

Oh, the times! Oh, the manners!

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason

Before beginning, prepare carefully

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

The administration of government, like guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Superstition is a senseless fear of God

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches

I am testis tempurum, lux veritatis, vita memorial, magistra vitae, nunita vetustatis. The Philosopher

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men and members

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...

Let the punishment match the offense.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault

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...

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend