Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

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We are bound by the law, so that we may be free.

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

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

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An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

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In fact the whole passion ordinarily termed love (and heaven help me if I can think of any other term to apply to it) is of such exceeding triviality that I see nothing that I think comparable with it.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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If wisdom be attainable, let us not only win but enjoy it.

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No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

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The science of love is the philosophy of the heart

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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Man is his own worst enemy.

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O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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Can you also, Lucullus, affirm that there is any power united with wisdom and prudence which has made, or, to use your own expression, manufactured man? What sort of a manufacture is that? Where is it exercised? when? why? how?

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I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

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