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• Morals today are corrupted by our worship of riches. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
• Our character (mores) is not so much the product of race and heredity, as of circumstances by which nature forms habits, by which we are nourished and live.
  Marcus Tullius Cicero "De Lege Agraria" (106-43 BCE)...
• Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)...
• There is not opinion so absurd that some philosopher will not express it.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Ad familiare...
• Ask of friends only what is honorable. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
• Often it is not even advantageous to know what will be. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
• Then condemn what they do not understand. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
• An unjust peace is better than a just war.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero "Epistola ad Atticum" (106-43 BCE)...
• What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.
  -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.)...