For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
A perverse temper and fretful disposition will make any state of life whatsoever unhappy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is easy to distinguish between the joking that reflects good breeding and that which is coarse-the one, if aired at an… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
This is a proof of a well-trained mind, to rejoice in what is good and to grieve at the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Things sacred should not only be touched with the hands, but unviolated in thought. [Lat., Res sacros non modo manibus attingi, sed ne cogitatione… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image