Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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He is rich who wishes no more than he has.

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Hatred is settled anger.

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Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

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This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.

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Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

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It is not a virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue, when we are led to the performance of duty by pleasure as its recompense.

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Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

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Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

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The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.

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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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It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.

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The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

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Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

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There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, 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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