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If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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