Cicero

Happened online across a quotation from Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) and decided to browse around for more. There are many, many, more than these.

• “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
• “Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labours of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.” 
• “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” 
• “Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error” 
• “To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.” 
• “It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.” 
•  “We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.” 
• “What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?” 
• “Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.” 
• “Be, rather than seem” 
• “But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.”