The best Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

More law, less justice.

Harvey Dent: "When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city. It wasn't considered an honor, it was considered a public service."
Rachel Dawes: "Harvey, the last man who they appointed the Republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power."
Harvey Dent: "Okay, fine. you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain..."

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health. What have the Romans ever done for us?

Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them, and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar.

When most first think of the word "empire", we think of the big one: Star Wars! Or Rome. And this is history, so it's Rome.

Teutoburg Forest, 9 AD. Three Roman legions are advancing towards Germania. The largest army in the world is met with many quarreling tribes. The Romans called them "barbarians". Their encounter changed the course of history.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Rome - which is kinda the same.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

In all of the world's books in all libraries in the universe, I couldn't find the words to describe what I feel about you.

Libraries are the intellectual gas stations of the country.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.

There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.

It is not that we are not sad for his passing. But in celebrating life, he shall remain with us forever. What better way to strengthen the bonds of the family that remains, than celebrating all who came before?

If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fck up for a minute and comfortably share the silence.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

To write a loveletter, you have to start without knowing what you're gonna write and end without knowing what you wrote.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.