Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hatred is inveterate anger.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hatred is settled anger.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero