Cicero
An accomplished poet, philosopher, rhetorician, and humorist, Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43 BC) was also the greatest forensic orator Rome ever produced.
- Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
- 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.
