Cicero

"Freedom suppressed and again restored is freedom enhanced."

"The precept of the law is this: that shall live honestly, that shall hurt no one, and shall give everyone his due."

"I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that Old Testament cannot make it acceptable."

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

"The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends."

"A man of courage is also a man of sinew and muscle."

"To understand the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning."

"The mind that is wise will not go to places where it might tempt fate."

"Nature herself has imprinted on the hearts of all the love of others."

"Brevity is the ornament of speech."

"The final good, and the ultimate aim of politics, is liberty."

"Money alone cannot acquire greatness of soul."

"In conflict, be fair and generous."

"These studies are a food to the youth, a pleasure to the old, an ornament in prosperity, a refuge and a solace in adversity."

"The dishonest speaker is not merely imperfect, but ceases to be an orator at all."

"No one can live happily who looks only to himself and turns everything to his own advantage."

"Virtuous men make virtuous examples."

"The greater your success, the more gracious you should be."

"Memory is the treasury of all things."

"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness."

"The belly has no ears."

"Rightly defined, philosophy is the science and practice of living happily."

"As is a tale, so is life; not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

"Hope is the pillar of the world."

"To destroy the freedom of the mind is to destroy freedom itself."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in its general aspect; but never be influenced by it in a particular case."

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery."

"Nothing is so damaging to a state as disloyalty in its leaders."

"The conquest of self is greater than victory in a thousand battles."