Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Laws are silent in time of war.

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

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

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Nature abhors annihilation.