Cicero Quotes | Fat Tony's

"Esse quam videri - "To be, rather than to seem (to be)”"

- Cicero

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."

- Cicero

"Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do."

- Cicero

"In times of war, the law falls silent."

- Cicero

"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it."

- Cicero

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

- Cicero

"For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives."

- Cicero

"While there's life, there's hope."

- Cicero

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

- Cicero

"Life is nothing without friendship."

- Cicero

"Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly."

- Cicero

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

- Cicero

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

- Cicero

"We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her."

- Cicero

"Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act."

- Cicero

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."

- Cicero

"The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living."

- Cicero