Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

In times of war, the law falls silent.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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The spirit is the true self. The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.

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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.

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Laws are silent in time of war.

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The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.

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These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

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Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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The works of nature must all be accounted good.

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The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

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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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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

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Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

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The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

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There is nothing which God cannot do. [Lat., Nihil est quod deus efficere non possit.]

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Generosity should never exceed ability.

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