Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

"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."

"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."

"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 into the social enjoyment of life."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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 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."

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

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

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

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