Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The wise man never loses his temper.

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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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There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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Unraveling the web of Penelope.

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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There is no quality I would rather have, and be thought to have, than gratitude. For it is not only the greatest virtue, but is the mother of all the rest.

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Constant practice devoted to one subject often outdoes both intelligence and skill. - Assiduus usus uni rei deditus et ingenium et artem saepe vincit

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For out of such an ungoverned populace one is usually chosen as a leader, someone bold and unscrupulous who curries favor with the people by giving them other men's property. To such a man the protection of public office is given, and continually renewed. He emerges as a tyrant over the very people who raised him to power.

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Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are silent in times of war).

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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Probabilities direct the conduct of the wise man.

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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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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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Exercise and temperance can preserve something of our early strength even in old age.

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What is there that is illustrious that is not also attended by labor?

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Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

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