Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.

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To the sick, while there is life there is hope. [Lat., Aegroto dum anima est, spes est.]

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

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It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

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Wars, therefore, are to be undertaken for this end, that we may live in peace, without being injured; but when we obtain the victory, we must preserve those enemies who behaved without cruelty or inhumanity during the war.

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Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

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It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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