Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.

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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

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Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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

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I wonder that a soothsayer doesn't laugh whenever he sees another soothsayer.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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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.

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

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Man's life is ruled by fortune, not by wisdom.

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

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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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.

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