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

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom.

Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

Not to be covetous, is money; not to be a purchaser, is a revenue.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase...

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase...

While there's life, there's hope.

While there's life, there's hope.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad...

Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad...

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes...

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes...

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and...

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and...

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than...

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than...

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there...

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there...

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

Law is intelligence, whose natural function it is to command right conduct and forbid wrongdoing.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a...

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a...

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

The law in Athens is true in Rome

The law in Athens is true in Rome

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

If it is true that the basic quest of man is freedom, the question we...

If it is true that the basic quest of man is freedom, the question we...

He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide,...

He is free who knows to keep in his own hands the power to decide,...

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves

I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to...

I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to...

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.