Cicero believed that words carried moral responsibility. These quotations reflect a life devoted to living wisely, speaking truthfully, and honoring justice, friendship, and restraint. ✨

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

The avarice of old age: it is absurd to increase one’s luggage as one nears the journey’s end.

One day well spent is to be preferred to an eternity of error.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has such authority that it is worth more than all the pleasures of youth.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.

The competent physician, before attempting to give medicine, makes himself acquainted not only with the disease, but also with the habits and constitution of the patient.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those finished by art.

To those engaged in commercial dealings, justice is indispensable for the conduct of business.

Old age begins at forty-six.

Ill-gotten gains will be ill spent.

It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.