Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.

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Nothing quite new is perfect.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

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Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

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The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

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Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success.

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Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.

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Like associates with like.

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It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life.

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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

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It was fear that was then making you a good citizen, which is never a lasting teacher of duty.

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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

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Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

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O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

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