Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

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An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

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Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

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Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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Life without learning is death.

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The gardener plants trees, not one berry of which he will ever see: and shall not a public man plant laws, institutions, government, in short, under the same conditions?

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You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

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The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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By doubting we come at truth.

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Our thoughts are free.

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

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