Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

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.

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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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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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

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You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.

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Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

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In extraordinary events ignorance of their causes produces astonishment.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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Falsehoods border on truths.

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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

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