Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

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History is truely the witness of times past, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the messenger of antiquity.

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Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.

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I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.

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Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

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Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even merely ignored or inadequately observed, no one would feel safe about anything, whether his own possessions, the inheritance he expects from his father, or the bequests he makes to his children.

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What times! What manners!

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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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If you wish to remove avarice you must remove its mother, luxuries. [Lat., Avaritiam si tollere vultis, mater ejus est tollenda, luxuries.]

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How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

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How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit?

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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

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I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

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Time is the herald of truth.

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He who suffers, remembers.

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We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

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For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.

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He who obeys with modesty appears worthy of being some day a commander.

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The best interpreter of the law is custom.

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A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

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