Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The good of the people is the greatest law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hatred is settled anger.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The sinews of war are infinite money.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

While there's life, there's hope.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The good of the people is the greatest law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To live is to think.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— 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

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No sane man will dance.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A home without books is a body without soul.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

To live is to think.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

While there's life, there's hope.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man of courage is also full of faith.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ability without honor is useless.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hatred is inveterate anger.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Honor is the reward of virtue.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

True nobility is exempt from fear.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Laws are silent in time of war.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is permissible is not always honorable.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

More law, less justice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A home without books is a body without soul.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In time of war the laws are silent.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— 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

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hatred is inveterate anger.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

More law, less justice.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A man of courage is also full of faith.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero