Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. Marcus Tullius Cicero on food
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. Marcus Tullius Cicero on food
Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law. Marcus Tullius Cicero on freedom
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes. Marcus Tullius Cicero on freedom
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero on friendship
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. Marcus Tullius Cicero on friendship
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. Marcus Tullius Cicero on friendship
Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty. Marcus Tullius Cicero on friendship
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero on gardening
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. Marcus Tullius Cicero on god
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Marcus Tullius Cicero on good
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. Marcus Tullius Cicero on good
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive. Marcus Tullius Cicero on great