3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero 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.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero 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.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero 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.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero 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.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
3 December 2020 Marcus Tullius Cicero 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.
