Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

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There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

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For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

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The forehead is the gate of the mind.

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Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

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It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

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The freedom of poetic license.

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In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be regulated by a combination of rights. And by this definition it appears that a multitude of men may be just as tyrannical as a single despot and indeed this is the most odious of all tyrannies, since no monster can be more barbarous than the mob, which assumes the name and mask of the people.

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To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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The works of nature must all be accounted good.

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For the laws are dumb in the midst of arms.

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Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

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Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

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Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man.

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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]

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Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

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Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.

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The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

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