Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred.

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Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

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Would that I could discover truth as easily as I can uncover falsehood.

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

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Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

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The good of the people is the greatest law.

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Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

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Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.

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Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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There were poets before Homer.

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If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

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Like associates with like.

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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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