Marcus Tullius Cicero

How many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends?

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

In nothing do men approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

The harvest of old age is the memory and rich store of blessings laid up earlier in life.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honourable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

The good of the people is the chief law.

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men.

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

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

While there's life, there's hope.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

If you aspire to teh highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.

There is no place more delightful than home.

pokój bez książek to ciało bez duszy.

A room without books is a body without soul.

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