Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is dignity without honesty?

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My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

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Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

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By doubting we come at truth.

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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Time is the herald of truth.

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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

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That which is usually called dotage is not the weak point of all old men, but only of such as are distinguished by their levity.

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

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Long life is denied us; therefore let us do something to show that we have lived.

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Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

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What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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