Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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Nature herself has imprinted on the minds of all the idea of God

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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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Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

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For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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Laws are inoperative in war

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War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

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The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

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What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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Like readily consorts with like.

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Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

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Come now: Do we really think that the gods are everywhere called by the same names by which they are addressed by us? But the gods have as many names as there are languages among humans. For it is not with the gods as with you: you are Velleius wherever you go, but Vulcan is not Vulcan in Italy and in Africa and in Spain.

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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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Nothing is difficult in the eyes of a lover.

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Peace is so beneficial that the word itself is pleasant to hear.

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Prudence must not be expected from a man who is never sober. [Lat., Non est ab homine nunquam sobrio postulanda prudentia.]

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The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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