Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The best interpreter of the law is custom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
Marcus Tullius Cicero