Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

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In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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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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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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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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They condemn what they do not understand.

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

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Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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

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He has no worse enemy than himself.

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Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

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Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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