Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Calamus fortior gladio.

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Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

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It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

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There is no one who can give you wiser advice than you can give yourself: you will never make a slip, if you listen to your own heart.

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

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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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More law, less justice.

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Anyone may fairly seek his own advantage, but no one has a right to do so at another's expense.

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Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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It is a true saying that 'one falsehood easily leads to another.'

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Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

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Virtue is its own reward.

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