"To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches." - Cicero

🌻 Abundance

“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”

Contentment isn't settling — it's recognizing the treasure you're already sitting on. That kind of richness can never be taken from you.

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

— Cicero

“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”

— Cicero

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

— Cicero

“If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.”

— Cicero

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

— Cicero

“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”

— Cicero