Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter."

"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."

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

"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."

"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."