Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes - Page 2

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?

To be ignorant of history is to remain always a child.

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

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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

Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore

n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......

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.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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