"While there's life, there's hope."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal."
"It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
"Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book."
"To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die."
"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..."
"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..."
"I criticize by creation, not by finding fault."
"We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her."
"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..."