An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
- To some extent I liken slavery to death.
- Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
- I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
- Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
- Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
- The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
- A man of courage is also full of faith.
- True nobility is exempt from fear.
- Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
- Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.