"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
- 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
"The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living."