Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

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The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living.

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God's law is 'right reason.' When perfectly understood it is called 'wisdom.' When applied by government in regulating human relations it is called 'justice.

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The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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To-morrow will give some food for thought.

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They condemn what they do not understand.

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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

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Let the punishment match the offense.

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The real friend is another self.

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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

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I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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I have always been of the opinion that unpopularity earned by doing what is right is not unpopularity at all, but glory.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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