Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

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

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

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Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water.

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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Like associates with like.

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I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

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No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

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In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

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Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

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The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

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What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

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