Cicero

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that you'll be happy when you get to work some day. Believing that this year will be better than last year. Believing that spring will bring relief. Believing that your luck will change if only this letter arrives. Believing that happiness will come with a new job. Believing that when you move to the next town it will all be better."

"The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust."

"Fear is the parent of cruelty."

"Nothing is so improbable that it cannot be made probable by eloquence."

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

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."

"A new friendship is the most tasking thing in the world."

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

"To be ignorant of the past is to remain ignorant of oneself."

"The things that we want in life are transformed by the resonance of our hearts."

"It is foolish to tear one's hair in rage, as if sorrow would be made less by baldness."

"Nothing is so ridiculous as to lament over the impossibility of accomplishing what has been already accomplished."

"Eternity is very long, especially towards the end."

"He who has made a fair compact with any one is to be cheated who deviates from it."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."

"Great is the influence of the sun's path in the heavens."

"Wise men are instructed by reason, common men by experience, the stupid by necessity, and beasts by instinct."

"Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own."

"The highest good is wisdom and the greatest evil is folly."

"What is the object of art but to enlarge our sympathies? And what is the object of enlarging our sympathies but to make us better and happier?"

"The sinews of war are infinite money."

"No legacy is so rich as honesty."

"As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce anything desirable."

"Freedom is participation in power."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

"How much easier it is to be wise for others than for ourselves."

"The judgment of oneself is always biased."

"To add insult to injury."

"Virtue is its own reward."