There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

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

Friends are proved by adversity.

The contract they sent over called for a 76 percent price increase.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

How long now, Catiline, will you abuse our patience?

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

Old men are garrulous by nature.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know

The whole injury experience was so frustrating. I knew if I could get back I would never take running for granted,

Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

O fortunatam natam me consule Romam! – O happy Rome, born when I was consul!

There is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.

My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can...

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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We think a happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Taxes are the sinews of the state

He is his own worst enemy

To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus

The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundaries

There were poets before Homer.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty

Ability without honor is useless.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent

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

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.