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Danh ngôn của Marcus Tullius Cicero (Sứ mệnh: 8)

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.
More law, less justice.
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Nature abhors annihilation.
The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.
To live is to think.
So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
An unjust peace is better than a just war.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
Laws are silent in time of war.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Hatred is inveterate anger.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
While there's life, there's hope.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Thrift is of great revenue.
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Hatred is settled anger.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.
To some extent I liken slavery to death.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.
Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.