An accomplished poet, philosopher, rhetorician, and humorist, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) was also the greatest forensic orator Rome ever produced.
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.
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.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.
A home without books is a body without soul.
While there's life, there's hope.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.