Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

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For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

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Leisure consists in all those virtuous activities by which a man grows morally, intellectually, and spiritually. It is that which makes a life worth living.

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Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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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 nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

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The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong

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There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.

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What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

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Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

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There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.

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A good orator is pointed and impassioned.

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To teach is a necessity, to please is a sweetness, to persuade is a victory.

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Every animal loves itself.

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No grief is so acute but time ameliorates it.

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Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home

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For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

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