Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Empire and liberty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
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

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

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
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

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
Marcus Tullius Cicero