Author of quotes: Marcus Tullius Cicero. Page 1

To direct, to order what is just, useful, in accordance with the laws - these are the tasks of officials. Laws order officials, officials order the people. It can be said that the government is the speaking law, and the law is the dumb government.

He who commands must sometimes obey, and he who obeys with dignity deserves to command in the future.

Let us consider what a powerful remedy philosophy gives us against diseases of the soul. These means undoubtedly exist, and nature was not so hostile to the human race that, having squandered so many substances useful for the body, it did nothing for the soul. On the contrary, she showed us all the more affection because the medicines for the body are outside of us, and the medicines for the soul are contained in herself. But the more, the more divine their action, the more attention should be used with them. Reason will show us these medicines, a mind which, well directed, will always discover the highest good, and which, if neglected, falls into a thousand errors.

The one who has known himself feels that he has something divine in him. His thoughts and deeds will be worthy of this precious gift of the gods. When he himself takes himself as the subject of his reasoning, when he subjected himself entirely to analysis, he will understand to what extent nature has endowed him with the means to rise to wisdom.

The human mind has penetrated to the very sky. Of all the animals, only we have the concept of the rising of the stars, their setting and movement. Man has demarcated days, months and years; solar and lunar eclipses are foreseen, they are predicted for the distant future, their volume, their time and their duration are indicated. It is to this great spectacle that man owes his knowledge of the gods, whence flow piety, justice, and all the virtues. Only these latter can give us the happiness of life, which makes us equal to the sacred gods. To complete the similarity, we lack only immortality: but is it necessary for a virtuous life?

If love were a natural feeling, then everyone would love, they would love the same thing all the time, without feeling any shame, or meditation, or satiety.

Hannibal ad portas.

Law is above power.

Anyone who has a library and a garden, doesn't need anything anymore.

A small price has weapons out of the country if there is no prudence at home.

There's nothing more constraining and subordinating the soul than the love of riches. There is nothing more worthy and noble contempt for money.

The closer the collapse of the Empire, the crazier its laws.

Exercises maintain the good spirit and do not give consciousness to fade.

Thank - echo virtue.