Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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Justice renders to every one his due.

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Friends, though absent, are still present.

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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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Thrift is a great revenue.

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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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It is graceful in a man to think and to speak with propriety, to act with deliberation, and in every occurrence of life to find out and persevere in the truth. On the other hand, to be imposed upon, to mistake, to falter, and to be deceived, is as ungraceful as to rave or to be insane.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

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

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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.

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No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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