Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

To live is to think.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature abhors annihilation.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

—David Harris

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

—May Sarton

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

—H. L. Mencken