Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThese are bad times. Children have stopped obeying their parents and everyone is writing books.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorConfidence corrupts friendship; too much contact consumes it; respect preserves it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorFriendship is a perfect agreement of the feelings of human and divine things, united with kindness and mutual tenderness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorJustice expects no reward. It is accepted for its own sake. And in the same way, all virtues are.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorIt is foolish to tear out one's hair in moments of affliction, as if it could be relieved by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorLove is the desire to obtain the friendship of a person who attracts us with their beauty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorHe who seduces a judge with the prestige of his eloquence is more guilty than he who corrupts him with money.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThis is the first precept of friendship: To ask of friends only what is honest, and to do only what is honest for them.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorThere is nothing so incredible that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorAs for adversity, you would hardly bear it if you did not have a friend who suffers for you more than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorIt is not enough to attain wisdom, it is necessary to know how to use it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
View AuthorMy conscience has more weight for me than the opinion of the whole world.