Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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Were floods of tears to be unloosed In tribute to my grief, The doves of Noah ne'er had roost Nor found an olive-leaf.

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Justice renders to every one his due.

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Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so.

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Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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Let reason govern desire.

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Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

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For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own.

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The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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Virtue is uniform, conformable to reason, and of unvarying consistency; nothing can be added to it that can make it more than virtue; nothing can be taken from it, and the name of virtue be left.

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No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

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It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

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If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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The name of peace is sweet, the thing itself is most salutary.

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For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

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Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

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