Who is Marcus Tullius Cicero

"In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory."

"In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body."

"It is a great thing to know our vices."

"It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another"."

"Laws are silent in times of war."

"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator."

"Let your desires be ruled by reason."

"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts."

"Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute."

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

"Nature herself makes the wise man rich."

"Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language."

"Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide."

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

Our thoughts are free.

Reason should direct and appetite obey.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness.

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.
(Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex)