"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be forever a child"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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 the records of history?"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"laws are silent in times of war"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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 action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"It is a great thing to know your vices."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Freedom is participation in power."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"To philosophize is to learn how to die."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"[T]o study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"God's law is "right reason". When perfectly understood it is called "wisdom". When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called "justice"."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Omnia mea mecum porto."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Endless money forms the sinews of war."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Politicians are not born; they are excreted."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"He who knows only his own generation remains always a child."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"dum spiro, spero"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"As for myself, I can only exhort you to look on Friendship as the most valuable of all human possessions, no other being equally suited to the moral nature of man, or so applicable to every state and circumstance, whether of prosperity or adversity, in which he can possibly be placed. But at the same time I lay it down as a fundamental axiom that "true Friendship can only subsist between those who are animated by the strictest principles of honour and virtue." When I say this, I would not be thought to adopt the sentiments of those speculative moralists who pretend that no man can justly be deemed virtuous who is not arrived at that state of absolute perfection which constitutes, according to their ideas, the character of genuine wisdom. This opinion may appear true, perhaps, in theory, but is altogether inapplicable to any useful purpose of society, as it supposes a degree of virtue to which no mortal was ever capable of rising."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero (On Obligations: De Officiis)

"True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions...It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"What is sweeter than lettered ease?"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"non deterret sapientem mors."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A home without books is a body without soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A man of courage is also full of faith. "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero (Letters to Atticus: Bks.I-VI v. 1)

"Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum"
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Wohl niemand tanzt, wenn er nüchtern ist, er müsste denn den Verstand verloren haben."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Een huis zonder boeken is als een lichaam zonder ziel."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset."

"The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, "To whose benefit?"

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— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"'If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Calamus fortior gladio."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero (Epistulae AD Quintum Fratrem, CB)