Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Desire Artem quid antenna Matúš sis accident, id est temper else Puerto. (To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.)

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

For walk where we will, we tread upon some story.

— 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.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero