Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

We must be ever on the search for some persons whom we shall love and who will love us in return. If good will and affection are taken away, every joy is taken from life.

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If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.

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What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.

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Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

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It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

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A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

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Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

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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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From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

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Fortune is not only blind herself, but blinds the people she has embraced.

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He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

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The proof of a well-trained mind is that it rejoices in which is good and grieves at the opposite.

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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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Diligence which, as it avails in all things, is also of the utmost moment in pleading causes. Diligence is to be particularly cultivated by us; it is to be constantly exerted; it is capable of effecting almost everything.

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It is disgraceful when the passers-by exclaim, "O ancient house! alas, how unlike is thy present master to thy former one.

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This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods.

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By Hercules! I prefer to err with Plato, whom I know how much you value, than to be right in the company of such men.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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