Marcus Tullius Cicero – ‘I add this that natural abil…
‘I add this that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.’
‘I add this that natural ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.’
‘A man has no enemy worse than himself.’
‘In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellowmen.’
‘Time destroys the speculations of man But it confirms the judgment of nature.’
‘Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.’
‘It is not by muscle speed or physical dexterity that great things are achieved but by reflection force of character and judgment; in these qualities old age is usually not only not poorer but is even richer.’
‘The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.’
‘As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character boils over and is at once dissipated and vanishes.’
‘In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.’
‘I wonder that a soothsayer doesnt laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.’