Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The real friend is another self.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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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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Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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Through doubt we arrive at the truth.

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Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

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

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

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In everything, without doubt, truth has the advantage over imitation.

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There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.

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Old age is by nature rather talkative.

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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Studies are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a delight at home, and no hindrance abroad; they are companions by night, and in travel, and in the country.

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Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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