Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What times! What manners!

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I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

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Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

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In the approach to virtue there are many steps.

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The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

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The impulse which directs to right conduct, and deters from crime, is not only older than the ages of nations and cities, but coeval with that Divine Being who sees and rules both heaven and earth.

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Genius is fostered by industry.

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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

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Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

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The dutifulness of children is the foundation of all virtues.

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There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

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Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

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An ancient custom obtains force of nature.

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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What is permissible is not always honorable.

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The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

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But if you should take the bond of goodwill out of the universe no house or city could stand, nor would even the tillage of the fields abide. If that statement is not clear, then you may understand how great is the power of friendship and of concord from a consideration of the results of enmity and disagreement. For what house is so strong, or what state so enduring that it cannot be utterly overthrown by animosities and division?

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The roots of knowledge are bitter, but its fruit are sweet.

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An unjust peace is better than a just war.

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But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature.

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