Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Inhumanity is harmful in every age. - Inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est

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To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

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Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

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In times of war, the law falls silent.

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When a government becomes powerful it is destructive, extravagant and violent; it is an usurer which takes bread from innocent mouths and deprives honorable men of their substance, for votes with which to perpetuate itself.

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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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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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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The memory of past troubles is pleasant. [Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]

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The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.

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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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Please go on, make your threats. I don't like to submit to mere implication.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

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Nature herself makes the wise man rich.

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We make allowance for necessity.

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The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

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In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

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