Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.

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A community is like the ones who govern it.

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When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

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The well-known old remark of Cato, who used to wonder how two soothsayers could look one another in the face without laughing.

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Peace is freedom in tranquility.

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It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

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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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Our minds are rendered buoyant by exercise.

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

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A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

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If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.

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The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

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The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace.

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On the subject of the nature of the gods, the first question is Do the gods exist or do the not? It is difficult you may say to deny that they exist. I would agree if we were arguing the matter in a public assembly, but in a private discussion of this kind, it is perfectly easy to do so.

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Law stands mute in the midst of arms.

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

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All the arts of refinement have mutual kinship.

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I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

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