Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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Our liberality should not exceed our ability.

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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

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In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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Thrift is of great revenue.

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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all respect for humanity.

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The law is silent during war. [Lat., Silent leges inter arma.]

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No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

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The great theatre for virtue is conscience.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

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Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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