Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
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...
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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...
According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.
Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.
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.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
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.
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 pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
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.
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...