Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

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The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

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Victory is by nature insolent and haughty.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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Ill gotten gains will be ill spent.

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Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

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Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

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A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.

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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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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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The whole glory of virtue resides in activity.

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Civilized people are taught by logic, barbarians, by necessity, communities by tradition; and the lesson inculcated even in wild beasts by nature itself. They learn that they have to defend their own bodies and persons lives from violence of any and every kind by all means within their power.

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We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

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For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.

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