Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

War leads to peace. [Lat., Cedant arma togae.]

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

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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No sane man will dance.

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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

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There is in fact a true law namely right reason, which is in accordance with nature, applies to all men and is unchangeable and eternal. ... It will not lay down one rule at Rome and another at Athens, nor will it be one rule today and another tomorrow. But there will be one law eternal and unchangeable binding all times and upon all peoples.

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If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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Before beginning, plan carefully.

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Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

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Strict law is often great injustice.

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All soils are not fertile.

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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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

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In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality.

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Hatred is inveterate anger.

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Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

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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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