Marcus Tullius Cicero quotes

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

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

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

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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

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

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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.

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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.

While there's life, there's hope.

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

While there's life, there's hope.

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

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

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

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

More law, less justice.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Laws are silent in time of war.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

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

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

In time of war the laws are silent.

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

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

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.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

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

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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

To live is to think.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

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

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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

The sinews of war are infinite money.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

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

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

Hatred is inveterate anger.

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

In time of war the laws are silent.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

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

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Laws are silent in time of war.

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.

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

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.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

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

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

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.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

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.

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

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Hatred is settled anger.