Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

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More law, less justice.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.

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History is the teacher of life

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Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

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I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

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No one dances sober, unless he is insane.

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We are born poets. we become orators.

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

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In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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Who doesn't know that the first law of history is not to dare to say anything false, and the second is not to refrain from saying anything true?

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

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Ability without honor is useless.

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True nobility is exempt from fear.

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

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In everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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