"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just."
"I have no interest in dying.But I have to. I have to care one day about things that don't matter to me."
- Noah Cicero
"Just as apples when unripe are torn from trees, but when ripe and mellow drop down, so it is violence that takes life from young men, ripeness from old. This ripeness is so delightful to me that, as I..."
"We must stand up against old age and make up for its drawbacks by taking pains. We must fight it as we should an illness. We must look after our health, use moderate exercise, take just enough food an..."
"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."
"Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so."
"Two distinctive traits especially identify beyond a doubt a strong and dominant character. One trait is contempt for external circumstances, when one is convinced that men ought to respect, to desire,..."
"The party at the bar was for an Internet literary journal that prints a hard copy version that was famous in the world of Internet literary journals that prints hard copy versions. What that means, I ..."
"the lessons are best when the pain is worse"
- misheck cicero