Cicero Quotes On Life, Philosophy, Wisdom

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.