For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.
Marcus Tullius CiceroFriendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized.
Marcus Tullius CiceroJust what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.
Marcus Tullius Cicero