Cicero

"The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt."

"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."

"We are slaves of the laws in order that we may be able to be free."

"The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others."

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

"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place."

"Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law."

"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."

"What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine."

"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."

"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."

"True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

"We think a happy life consists in tranquillity of mind."

"In honourable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought."

"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offence."

"Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy."

"Nature abhors annihilation."

"In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures."

"Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery."

"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."

"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions."

"If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it."

"Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason."

"If you pursue good with labour, the labour passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains."

"Nothing quite new is perfect." - Brutus

"If a man could mount to heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had some one to share in his pleasure." - De Amicitia

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

"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it." - De Divinatione

"Let the punishment match the offence." - De Legibus

"No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration." - De Natura Deorum

"Justice shines by its own light." - De Officiis

"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed." - De Officiis

"The countenance is the portrait of the mind, the eyes are its informers." - De Oratore

"Whatever you do, do with all your might." - De Senectute

"Oh, the times! Oh, the customs! (O tempora! O mores!)" - In Catilinam

"He is his own worst enemy." - of Julius Caesar, in Epistolae Ad Atticum

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?" - Orator

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability." - Pro Archia Poeta

"In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names." - Pro Archia Poeta

"Laws are silent in time of war." - Pro Milone