Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

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Always the same thing.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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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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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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An intemperate, disorderly youth will bring to old age, a feeble and worn-out body.

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The administration of government, like a guardianship ought to be directed to the good of those who confer, not of those who receive the trust.

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Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past.

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Friendship is nothing else than entire fellow feeling as to all things human and divine with mutual good-will and affection; and I doubt whether anything better than this, wisdom alone excepted, has been given to man.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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It is better to receive than to do injury.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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Hatred is a settled anger.

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An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.

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When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

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