Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

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Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

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Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

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Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

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If nature does not ratify law, then all the virtues may lose their sway.

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Old age by nature is rather talkative.

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A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

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Let the force of arms give place to law and justice.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.

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Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset. The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?

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It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.

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There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

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No man in his senses will dance.

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There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

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If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.

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No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

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The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

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