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.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A home without books is a body without soul.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.

— 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.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero