Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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 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."