Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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

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

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.

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Certain signs precede certain events.

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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

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Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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

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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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Our thoughts are free.

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There are no true friends in politics.

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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.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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Like associates with like.

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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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