Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Il y a encore de certains devoirs à remplir envers même de qui nous avons reçu une injure; car la vengeance et la punition ont aussi leurs bornes. Je ne sais même si repentir de celui qui a fait l'injure ne suffirait pas et pour l'empêcher d'en faire une semblable à l'avenir et pour retenir les autres dans le devoir.”

“Предпочитам сдържаната разумност, пред бъбривата глупост.”

“Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.”

“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”

“A man of faith is also full of courage”

“Angustus animus pecūniam amat".”

“Aquele que se ama a si próprio não tem rivais”

“Nescire autem quid antequam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum.”

“Cum dignitate otium”

“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”

“They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever”

“Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.”

“We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.”

“I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.”

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error”

“Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”

“Salus populi suprema est lex [the good of the people is the chief law].”

“Nemo est qui tibi sapientius suadere possit te ipso: numquam labere, si te audies.(Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself: if you heed yourself, you'll never go wrong.)”

“True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.”

“Dogs wait for us faithfully.”

“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”

“Ability without honor is useless.”

“So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.”

“En un mot, nos mains tâchent de faire dans la nature, pour ainsi dire, une autre nature.”

“We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.”

“To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.”

“non deterret sapientem mors.”

“If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.”

“Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset.The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?”

“What one has, one ought to use; and whatever he does, he should do with all his might.”

“A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.”

“Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.”

“Quo usque tandem abutere, Catalina, patientia nostra?”

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”

“Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere.(No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)”

“a friend is a second self”

“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”

“Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word...”

“For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.”

“Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.”

“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.”

“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”

“While there's life, there's hope.”

“Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.”

“Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the time gives us in which we live, we should therefore be content.”

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

“Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.”

“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. ”