Quotes from Cicero

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

Let the punishment match the offense.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered

As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it

Life is nothing without friendship.