Marcus Tullius Cicero

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Where books are, there is home.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

A happy life consists in the tranquility of mind.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

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

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

True nobility is exempt from fear.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

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