True law is right reason in agreement with nature;...it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions... It is a sin to try to alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIt shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNever was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThese studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.
Marcus Tullius Cicero