Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

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If I am mistaken in my opinion that the human soul is immortal, I willingly err; nor would I have this pleasant error extorted from me; and if, as some minute philosophers suppose, death should deprive me of my being, I need not fear the raillery of those pretended philosophers when they are no more.

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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

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They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.

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

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

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Friends are proved by adversity.

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Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

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This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

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The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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All soils are not fertile.

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

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The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

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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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Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

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To freemen, threats are impotent.

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