Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

What is impossible by the nature of things is not confirmed by any law.

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Pardon is granted to necessity.

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That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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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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Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

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All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.

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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all.

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There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness.

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

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There were poets before Homer.

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The more laws, the less justice.

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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

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I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.

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All literature, all philosophical treatises, all the voices of antiquity are full of examples for imitation, which would all lie unseen in darkness without the light of literature.

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Life is nothing without friendship.

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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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Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

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Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.

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Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?

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