No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
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...
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more defi...
Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about i...
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never...
What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action cons...
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.
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.
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.