Cicero's Life Laws to Learn in Youth and Avoid Regrets
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00:00 It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
00:07 Boastful speeches are the first sign of weakness,
00:15 and those who are capable of great things keep their mouths shut.
00:20 The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
00:28 If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
00:37 With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
00:42 Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
00:53 If we are not ashamed to think about it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
00:59 Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
01:08 The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
01:19 I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
01:24 In times of war, the law falls silent.
01:31 Kindness is stronger than fear.
01:37 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
01:46 While there's life, there's hope.
01:52 Endless money forms the sinews of war.
01:59 The greatest victory is victory over yourself.
02:06 A friend is a second self.
02:12 I am never as busy as during my leisure hours.
02:20 Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
02:27 The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
02:39 We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
02:43 Law applied to its extreme is the greatest injustice.
02:51 Books, our unfailing companions.
02:58 Spice up your speech with humor.
03:07 A man of faith is also full of courage.
03:11 The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
03:22 Freedom is participation in power.
03:29 The reward of friendship is friendship itself.
03:37 You can't love either the one you're afraid of or the one who's afraid of you.
03:45 Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
03:55 Impunity is the greatest encouragement of crime.
04:05 In the world, there is nothing better and more pleasant than friendship.
04:11 To exclude friendship from life is the same as to deprive the world of sunlight.
04:22 Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial either.
04:34 The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
04:39 Nothing stands out so conspicuously or remains so firmly fixed in the memory as something which you have blundered.
04:52 We are bound by the law so that we may be free.
05:02 He who has money cannot be punished.
05:06 Order is most helpful for clear assimilation.
05:13 In all matters, before beginning, diligent preparation should be made.
05:25 Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
05:33 It is our own evil thoughts which make us.
05:40 Freedom will bite back more fiercely when suspended than when she remains undisturbed.
05:53 To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare oneself to die.
05:59 A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
06:07 Old age, the crown of life, our play's last act.
06:19 No one can give you better advice than yourself.
06:24 Good and evil cannot be treated the same way.
06:31 Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
06:38 Ability without honor is useless.
06:47 To teach is a necessity. To please is sweetness. To persuade is a victory.
06:56 Even those philosophers who wrote treaties against fame did not forget to put their name in the title of their book.
07:08 Wisdom is the only thing which can banish sorrow from the breast.
07:17 It is a great thing to know your vices.
07:22 Thrift is an important source of wealth.
07:29 Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the ideas of God.
07:41 It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
07:49 He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
07:58 Happiness should be asked from God. Wisdom should be acquired by yourself.
08:09 What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes?
08:16 Stupidity tends to see other people's vices and forget about their own.
08:26 We need to eat and drink enough so that our strength is restored and not suppressed.
08:37 A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
08:46 To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.
08:59 If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
09:06 True law is right reason in agreement with nature.
09:13 It is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting.
09:18 It summons to duty by its commands and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.
09:27 Be rather than seem.
09:32 Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.
09:47 The one to whom the service is rendered should remember about it and the one who rendered it should not remember about it.
09:58 In fears and danger we are more inclined to believe in miracles.
10:09 The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
10:21 The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
10:32 A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
10:42 A room without books is like a body without a soul.
10:50 Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
11:00 Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
11:08 The love you give in life keeps people alive beyond their time.
11:16 Anyone who was given love will always live on in another's heart.
11:24 Not being greedy is already wealth, not being wasteful is income.
11:32 History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.
11:39 It illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.
11:53 For books are more than books.
11:57 They are the life, the very heart and core of ages past,
12:02 the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
12:12 The greatest virtue of a speaker is not only to say what is necessary, but also not to say what is not necessary.
12:22 Read at every weight, read at all hours, read within leisure, read in times of labor, read as one goes in, read as one goes out.
12:39 The task of the educated mind is simply put, read to lead.
12:46 If fate does not give you something, it means that it protects you from something.
12:55 There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of a relationship.
13:07 Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
13:20 The more honest men are, the less he suspects others of dishonesty.
13:28 A low soul always presupposes the lowest motives for noble deeds.
13:36 To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to always remain a child.
13:46 For what is the worth of human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
13:56 [Music]