Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Life without learning is death.

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The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

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How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!

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What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

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The existence of virtue depends entirely upon its use.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

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Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time.

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

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Men think they may justly do that for which they have a precedent.

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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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Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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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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