Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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.

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

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

After victory, you have more enemies.

I hate all children of precocious talent.

In times of war, the law falls silent.

It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

Nothing is so secure as that money will not defeat it.

We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

That he who hath the loan of money has not repaid it, and he who has repaid has not the loan; but he who has acknowledged a kindness has it still, and he who has a feeling of it has requited it.

The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

When they remain silent, they cry out.

Life is nothing without friendship.

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

Do nothing twice over.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

Promises are not to be kept, if the keeping of them is to prove harmful to those to whom you have made them.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

We are not born, we do not live for ourselves alone; our country, our friends, have a share in us.

The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end.

What is dignity without honesty?

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Every man's friend is no man's friend.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

History is the teacher of life

Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Justice renders to every one his due.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.