Marcus Tullius Cicero

"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."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"I criticize by creation, not by finding fault."

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

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

"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."

"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 constitutes an advantage is pernicious."

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

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."

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

"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die."

"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."

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

"A friend is, as it were, a second self."

"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."

"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."

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