I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero
Profession: Statesman Nationality: Roman
We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.
Friends are proved by adversity.
The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.
O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Advice is judged by results not by intentions.
There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner.
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.
More law, less justice.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
