“For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.”
-Cicero.
“What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.”
– Cicero.
“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
– Cicero.
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
– Cicero.
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
– Cicero.
“Non nobis solum nati sumus (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)”
– Cicero.
“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
– Cicero.
“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”
– Cicero.
“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
– Cicero.
“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
– Cicero.
