Christopher Heart > Christopher's Quotes

“Everything should take place slowly and incorrectly so that man doesn't get a chance to start feeling proud, so that man is sad and perplexed.”
― Venedikt Erofeev, Moscow to the End of the Line

“Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“In times of war, the law falls silent.

Silent enim leges inter arma”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Senectute, De Amicitia

“Politicians are not born; they are excreted.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“While there's life, there's hope.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Dum Spiro, spero”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?”
― Cicero

“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Ability without honor is useless.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Never injure a friend, even in jest.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.”
― Cicero

“Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Dogs wait for us faithfully.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God”
― Cicero

“He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero