Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

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A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

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A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.

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An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

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He is an eloquent man who can treat humble subjects with delicacy, lofty things impressively, and moderate things temperately.

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Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace. [Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]

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To freemen, threats are impotent.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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Summer lasts not for ever; seasons succeed each other.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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To wonder at nothing when it happens, to consider nothing impossible before it has come to pass.

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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