Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Hmm... That's like telling you about the cold of space, or terror of midnight. Sithis is all those things. He is... the Void.

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It is a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.

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Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

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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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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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Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

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There is nothing god cannot do.

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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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There is no thing which God cannot accomplish.

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The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

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It is a great thing to know your vices.

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The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.

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Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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Pleasure blinds (so to speak) the eyes of the mind, and has no fellowship with virtue.

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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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