Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

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Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

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There is a certain virtue in every good man, which night and day stirs up the mind with the stimulus of glory, and reminds it that all mention of our name will not cease at the same time with our lives, but that our fame will endure to all posterity.

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I hate all children of precocious talent.

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

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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.'

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War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace.

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In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

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That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

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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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For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

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The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

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Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

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If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

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

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No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]

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