Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The whole of virtue consists in its practice.

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The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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The foundation of justice is good faith.

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To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.

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

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For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

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

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Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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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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What is more agreeable than one's home?

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Let each man have according to his deserts.

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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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In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

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Before beginning, prepare carefully.

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I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

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