Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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Hunger is the best sauce.

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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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Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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Let a man practice the profession which he best knows.

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A man would have no pleasures in discovering all the beauties of the universe, even in heaven itself, unless he had a partner to whom he might communicate his joys.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

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Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers.

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Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

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What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.

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"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

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