Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The good of the people is the greatest law.

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An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost.

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The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

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The first bond of society is marriage.

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The man who is always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence for virtue.

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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars. [Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.]

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Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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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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The sinews of war are infinite money.

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Life without learning is death.

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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots the soul of a nation...he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

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It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigor.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

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For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

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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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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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I am never less alone than when alone.

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